Hubble's image of IRAS 16562-3959, a star-forming region in the Milky Way about 5,900 light-years away in Scorpius, is coloured by artists rather than by eye. Hubble's raw observations are always black and white, and the data here were collected through four infrared filters that the human eye cannot see. Image specialists assign colours that follow the usual pattern, with shorter wavelengths shown as bluer and longer ones as redder. The centre hosts a forming star thought to be about 30 times the mass of the Sun, hidden by dust. Near-infrared light escapes on two sides, where a powerful jet from the young star has cleared the dust.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.