Tendrils of gas and dust arc into the abyss of space while countless stars sparkle their brightest in this image of a faraway stellar nursery. Yet as striking as the snapshot is, it seems to capture nothing in particular.
"Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week?" European Southern Observatory (ESO) wrote in a statement accompanying the 1.5-billion-pixel image. Exploring this gas cloud "means finding your way across countless nascent stars born in this enormous stellar nursery."
