Those Young and the Restless...Stars

...stars are formed from the swirling chaos of thick clouds of gas and dust, lit up by the various newborns embedded within. You'll find no finer example of this than the large nebula called Sharpless 2-239, a sprawling stellar nursery about 500 light years away in the direction of Taurus, and you may find no finer picture of it than this one taken by astronomer Adam Block using the 0.8 meter telescope at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter in Arizona.

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