The Lupus 3 Dark Cloud with Hot Young Blue Stars | ESO
This evocative image shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).
It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. This picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and is among the best images ever taken of this little-known object.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/F. Comeron
Release Date: January 16, 2013
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