A Butterfly-Shaped 'Papillon Nebula' Yields Secrets of Massive Star Birth

A Butterfly-Shaped 'Papillon Nebula' Yields Secrets of Massive Star Birth

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of starbirth, called N159, taking place 170, 000 light-years away in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

By ASHESH DAS RUP

Location: IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, N159

Tags: Hubble, Space, Universe, Nebulae, ESA