Sequences
44. of star formation
in neighbouring galaxy
The iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighbouring galaxy is captured in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust
clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, catalogued as N11B lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC),
located only 160,000 light-years from Earth. With its high resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view details of star
formation in the LMC as easily as ground-based telescopes are able to observe stellar formation within our own Milky Way.
Our neighbourhood galaxy lies in the Constellation of Dorado and is sprinkled with a number of regions harbouring recent
and ongoing star formation. One of these star-forming region, N11B, is shown in this Hubble image. It is a subregion within a
larger area of star formation called N11.
Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/HEIC)
Playing
45. twister
The Hubble telescope has captured an
image of an unusual edge-on galaxy,
revealing remarkable details of its warped
dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies
spawn the formation of new generations of
stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral
galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat
when viewed edge-on. This Hubble Heritage
image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that,
by contrast, has an unusual twisted disk
structure.
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage
Team STScI/AURA)