esahubble_opo9627b August 7th, 1996
Credit: Palomar Observatory, Caltech and the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (AURA)
This is a site where new stars are being born in a spiral arm of the galaxy. Though such nebulae are common in galaxies, this one is particularly large, nearly 1, 500 light-years across. The nebula is so vast it is easily seen in ground-based telescopic images.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9627b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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