This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.
A distorted spiral galaxy with a swirling pattern of gas and dark dust.
Hubble’s near-infrared view reveals over 800,000 stars and protostars within the nebula.
A glowing gas and dust cloud from a Herbig-Haro object was observed by Hubble.
Young stars illuminate and shape their birthplaces with winds and UV radiation.
The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star, which is the crushed, ultra-dense core of the exploded star.