Hot gas, blazing stars remind us, once again, that the universe can be a beautiful place

Here to remind us that the universe can be a breathtakingly gorgeous place is this lush new image of an emission nebula where hot young stars are super-heating a vast expanse of gas 163,000 light-years from Earth. The blue and white dots in the picture are super-hot stars that are just a few million...

via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/2058kLT