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Blowing Bubbles
Featured on February 6, 2019
Clouds of hydrogen gas glow blue and orange in this view of a stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years away. Hot young stars in the nursery push away the gas around them, creating vast bubbles. Energy from the young stars causes the gas to glow. This nursery contains one giant bubble surrounded by several smaller ones. The image was produced by the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. [ESO/A. McLeod, et al.]
