Close-up of Star-forming Region NGC 6729 in Corona Australis | ESO

Close-up of Star-forming Region NGC 6729 in Corona Australis | ESO

This very detailed enhanced-color image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the dramatic effects of very young stars on the dust and gas where they were born in 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 kilometers per hour. This picture was taken by the FORS1 instrument and records the scene in the light of glowing hydrogen and sulphur.

Distance: 400 light years

Credit: ESO/Sergey Stepanenko

Release Date: March 16, 2011

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