Pan: Stellar cradle
Description
The protostellar object OH 339.88-1.26, which lies 8 900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara, lurks in this dust-filled image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Winding lanes of dark dust thread through this image, which is also studded with bright stars crowned with criss-crossing diffraction spikes.
More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2335a/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. C. Tan (Chalmers Univ. & Univ. of Virginia), N. Bartmann
Music: Stellardrone - Ascent
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