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Jamie Carter

Space photo of the week: Hot young suns glow blue, white and orange in the Lobster Nebula

This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars.

What it is: NGC 6357, a diffuse emission nebula

Where it is: 8,000 light-years away, in the Scorpius constellation.

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