NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope used its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to capture this stunning image of a high-mass star formation region known as G35.2-0.7N. Located 7,200 light-years from Earth, this shimmering nebula with stars consists of dense clouds of dust and gas that cover the left-hand side, while a filament crosses the center horizontally.
The billowing streams of gas and dust appear as a multitude of colors emerging from the center. Speaking of this nebula’s center, you’ll also see that it is permeated with glowing orange regions. Various blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and if you look even closer, small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds.
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This beautiful picture was assembled using data that were collected primarily for very specific research purposes, as are many of the Hubble Pictures of the Week. The research conducted using these data included measuring the extent of ionisation in the jets being blasted out of the protostar buried within G35.2-0.7N,” said the European Space Agency.
