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05-19-2016, 04:00 AM
Star-forming gas cloud lights up in new telescope photo
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A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy **t that far from the Milky Way.
The gas of the nebula, named LHA 120-N55, is illuminated by the young, hot blue stars that formed relatively recently in that hotbed of stellar activity, giving scientists a new glimpse into how and why stars form in certain parts of space.*
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LHA 120-N55 was photographed by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large*Telescope in Chile, but this nebula is only part of this cosmic region's story. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/gas-cloud-picture-nebula-photo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy **t that far from the Milky Way.
The gas of the nebula, named LHA 120-N55, is illuminated by the young, hot blue stars that formed relatively recently in that hotbed of stellar activity, giving scientists a new glimpse into how and why stars form in certain parts of space.*
SEE ALSO: How dying stars could turn frozen worlds into habitable planets (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/dying-stars-make-habitable-exoplanets/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
LHA 120-N55 was photographed by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large*Telescope in Chile, but this nebula is only part of this cosmic region's story. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/18/gas-cloud-picture-nebula-photo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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