eso_eso1303c January 16th, 2013
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with cluster of brilliant stars that have already burst out of their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1303c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
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