Need to blow off some steam? You're not alone –– galaxies sometimes do that too. Ok, not steam per se, but still.
This is NGC4383, observed with ESO's Very Large Telescope in #Chile. This nearby galaxy is undergoing a burst of intense star formation that is ejecting huge amounts of gas out of the galaxy, seen here as red filaments. 1/2
This image was taken with the MUSE instrument at the VLT. MUSE doesn't take images per se. Instead, it breaks the light coming from every point within its field of view into a rainbow or spectrum. This provides astronomers with a wealth of information about the motion and chemical composition of the gas and stars at different points within the image.
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