The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its silver anniversary today with a picture featuring a spectacular vista of young stars blazing across a dense cloud of gas and dust. The Westerlund 2 cluster of stars is located about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina and here it is in all its glory:
https://www.spacetelescope.org/stati.../heic1509a.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MwOCgzQ6M
The wider gas cloud area is basically a stellar nursery where baby stars are born.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/stati.../heic1509a.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MwOCgzQ6M
The wider gas cloud area is basically a stellar nursery where baby stars are born.




