NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this intriguing image of N11, a complex cluster of emission nebula inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that some say looks like stellar floss. It’s located around 160,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.
N11’s sprawling filaments span 1,000 light-years across, weaving stellar matter in and out of each other like cosmic candy floss. These clouds of gas are ionized by rapidly expanding young and massive stars, giving the bubbling region a cherry-pink appearance. These bubbles are caused by the rigorous emergence and death of stars contained in the nebulae.
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The cluster houses a wide array of stars for Hubble to examine, including one area that has stopped forming stars, and another that continues to form them. Hubble’s unique capabilities allowed astronomers to comprehensively study the diversity of stars in the N11 complex, and map the differences between each region,” said the NASA Hubble Mission Team.
