LHA 120-N44<\/a> (or N44 for short) resides approximately 160,000 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado.<\/p>\n\u201cN44 is dominated by two features: a vast central void and a shell of dense, dusty gas,\u201d Hubble astronomers said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe central void is a \u2018superbubble\u2019 spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-years across.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe glittering stars at the center of the void are responsible for its creation; through their powerful stellar winds and explosive supernovae, these stars expelled much of the gas from which they were born.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the stars of N44\u2019s central star cluster swept away this gas, the expelled gas formed a shell around the superbubble.\u201d<\/p>\n
New stars are forming in this compressed gas shell, making N44 an interesting target for researchers studying the process of star formation.<\/p>\n
The astronomers used Hubble to catalog nearly half a million stars in the region, including roughly 30,000 still in their infancy, before they\u2019ve begun fusing hydrogen.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach feature within the broader N44 star-forming complex was catalogued by astronomer Karl Henize in the 1950s,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne feature is a smaller bubble, catalogued as N44F, that is located near the upper-right corner of this image.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cN44F is an interstellar bubble blown by the intense stellar winds of a single hot and massive star.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs this previously released Hubble close-up shows, the star\u2019s furious winds and radiation have sculpted the surrounding bubble and created pillars of dusty gas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new images from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals LHA 120-N44, a striking nebula located roughly 160,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,208335,307791,11029,4285,20400,125389,307792,307793,307,30635,66,3305,31550],"class_list":["post-887212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dwarf-galaxy","tag-emission-nebula","tag-esa","tag-galaxy","tag-hubble","tag-large-magellanic-cloud","tag-lha-120-n44","tag-n44","tag-nasa","tag-nebula","tag-science","tag-star","tag-star-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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