Festival of Stars
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December 18, 2009
Scores of hot giant stars carve a cavity in the stellar nursery known as 30 Doradus, which is about 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way. This recently released view from Hubble Space Telescope shows the stars, some of which are up to 100 times as massive as the Sun, as a spray of bright blue dots. Great streamers and pillars of gas and dust glow red and green in the false-color image, which is a combination of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet views of the nebula. The gas and dust are the raw materials for even more stars. [NASA/ESA/F. Paresce, et al.]
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