Space scientists have spotted new stars brewing in a Halloween-like cosmic cauldron.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have found a turbulent star-forming region named N159, which is located 161,000 light-years away and emitting orange hues.
Choosing the observation as their Picture of the Month, they commented: ‘Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
‘We visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas.’
The image of N159 spans about 230 light-years across in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
N159 is what astronomers
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