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Image of the Day: A Peek into a Stellar Nest
posted: 07:00 am ET
08 May 2003
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Untitled Document
ESO/VLT
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This dramatic picture of star formation comes courtesy the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. It shows a region of our Milky Way Galaxy, called RCW38, where stars are being born at an intense rate inside an natal cloud of gas and dust. The nebula is about 5,000 light-years away toward the constellation Vela. Many newformed stars are visible because the infrared observatory sees through much of the gas and dust that obscures the scene for optical telescopes. The stars light up the surrounding material, stuff that's leftover from the stars born so far and that might be used as the building blocks of stars yet to be. [How A Star is Born] -- Robert Roy Britt Return each weekday for a new SPACE.com Image of the Day. 
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