Fact Sheet
Stellar Sculptors
Hot young stars carve beautiful shapes in surrounding clouds of gas and dust in this newly released image from Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows NGC 2467, a stellar nursery about 13,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Puppis. The clouds span dozens of light-years. They form a "nursery" that has given birth to many stars. Some of these stars are big and hot. Radiation and winds from these stars blow away much of the surrounding gas and dust, carving the clouds into fantastic shapes. This process also prevents the clouds from giving birth to more stars. [NASA/ESA/Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University)]
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