An eagle of cosmic proportions

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 09:49 in Astronomy & Space

Located 7000 light-years away, towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake), the Eagle Nebula is a dazzling stellar nursery, a region of gas and dust where young stars are currently being formed and where a cluster of massive, hot stars, NGC 6611, has just been born.

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