Oct 15, 2024, 07:02 AM IST

7 stunning images of star formation shared by NASA

Apurwa Amit

The Rosette Nebula is a vast emission nebula located about 5,200 light years away. The star forming region lies near a large molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.

NGC 346 is a young open cluster of stars with associated nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud that appears in the southern constellation of Tucana.

The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion, and is known as the middle "star" in the "sword" of Orion.

NASA' Hubble Space Telescope captured this image that shows the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region located about 5,400 light-years away from Earth.

This image of Pillars of creation captrured by Hubble Space Telescope shows elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula

Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, is one of the largest star-forming regions in our Milky Way Galaxy.

Rho Ophiuchi, the closest star-forming region to Earth, is a multiple star system in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is located about 360 light-years away.

Credit: NASA