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an HII region — a cloud of ionised hydrogen — located in the constellation of Puppis (the Stern)

7 arcsec seeing

Credit: NASA/ESA

The brightest member of this cluster

was originally released in November 2012

NGC 6729 Wall Art including Frame phone case an HII region — aThis very detailed enhanced colour image from ESOs Very Large Telescope shows the dramatic effects of very young stars on the dust and gas from which they were born in the star forming region NGC 6729. The baby stars are invisible in this picture, being hidden behind dust clouds at the upper left of the picture, but material they are ejecting is crashing into the surroundings at speeds of that can be as high as one million kilometres per hour. This