esahubble_opo9424a June 13th, 1994
Credit: C.R. O'Dell/Rice University NASA/ESA
This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (300, 000 years ago). The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot stars at the top of the picture. Many of the fainter young stars are surrounded by disks of dust and gas that are slightly more than twice the diameter of the Solar System.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9424a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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