Nebula LHA 120-N55,optical image. This emission nebula is glowing due to absorbing and re-emitting the light from hot young blue stars that formed relatively recently,part of a region of star formation. LHA 120-N55 is around 160,000 light years from Earth,in the Large Magellanic Cloud,in the constellation of Dorado. This image was obtained with the FORS2 (Focal Reducer and Low Dispersion Spectrograph) instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Image released in May 2016 | |
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