The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

The Hubble image highlights its bright central region, surrounded by expansive spiral arms filled with stellar nurseries. The pink regions, known as HII zones, indicate areas where new stars are ...

A giant stellar nursery shows off its newborn stars in a new photo taken by a powerful telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The nursery -- known formally as the Orion A molecular cloud -- is ...

which evaporate and disperse the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed." The bizarre star system Eta Carinae can also be seen in the new image. The star system is thought to be a binary ...

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Andersen (European Southern Observatory - Germany); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the ...