Hotbed of star formation

A photograph of the centre of the Swan Nebula, or M17, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colourful blankets of glowing gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud.
Hotbed of star formation
Photo by: NASA, ESA, Holland Ford
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