Wide-field View: Star-forming Region LHA 120–N 44 | ESO
This visible-light wide-field image of the area around the star-forming region LHA 120–N 44 surrounding the star cluster NGC 1929, was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The superbubble appears close to the center and several other star formation regions are visible in the surrounding sky. The field of view is approximately three degrees across.
Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, this region of star formation features a colossal superbubble of material expanding outwards due to the influence of the cluster of young stars at its heart that sculpts the interstellar landscape and drives forward the nebula’s evolution.
Distance: 170,000 light years
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Digitized Sky Survey 2
Release Date: July 20, 2011
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