... Visible in this image are dense knots of dark interstellar dust , bright stars that have formed in the past few million years, fields of glowing hydrogen gas ionized by these stars, and great loop s of gas expelled by dying stars. ...
... In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known ... These stars, known collectively as star cluster R136 , were captured above in visible light by the Wide Field Camera peering ...
... June 25, 1996 . A Star Forming Region in the LMC . Credit: C. Smith ( U. Michigan ), Curtis Schmidt Telescope , CTIO , Chile . ... Explanation: Stars sometimes form in colorful ways. ...
... 2000 July 25 . Why Stars Twinkle . Credit: Applied Optics Group ( Imperial College ), Herschel 4.2-m Telescope . ... Explanation: This is what a star really looks like from the surface of the Earth. ...
... A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles . Credit and Copyright: P. Berlind & P. Challis ( CfA ), 1.2-m Telescope , Whipple Obs . ... Explanation : Wolf-Rayet stars can blow bubbles. These unusual stars are much hotter and more luminous than our Sun . ...