Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss

 

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A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. This complex cluster of emission nebulae is known as N11, and was discovered by American astronomer and NASA astronaut Karl Gordon Henize in 1956. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope brings a new image of the cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.

Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spots-billowing-bubbles-of-stellar-floss/