Not exact matches
These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical shapes sculpted by powerful radiation coming from the
nearby brilliant young
stars.
The three toepads visible to modern telescopes, as well as the claw - like regions in the
nearby Lobster Nebula, are actually regions of gas — predominantly hydrogen — energised by the light of
brilliant newborn
stars.
This artist's view from an imagined planet around a
nearby star shows the
brilliant glow of exozodiacal light extending up into the sky and swamping the Milky Way.
A simple point of light could be a dim
nearby star or a
brilliant one thousands of light - years away.
A
nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering
star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in
brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic
stars.