the boomer live

The photo was taken with a giant telescope at the European Southern Observatory, on a mountaintop in La Silla, Chile.

Nicknamed "The Eye of God" the  blue pupil and the white of the eye are circled by flesh-coloured eyelids. The object is actually a shell of gas and dust around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius.  It can be dimly seen in small backyard telescopes by amateur astronomers who call it the Helix nebula.