Zooming in on Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

Zooming in on Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

This video zooms in on star-forming region Sh 2-106, also known as S106. This is a compact star forming region in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). A newly-formed star called S106 IR is shrouded in dust at the center of the image, and is responsible for the the surrounding gas cloud's hourglass-like shape and the turbulence visible within.

Distance: 3,300 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Nick Risinger

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: Feb 17, 2016

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