Image: Intense star formation in the Westerhout 43 region
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 06:02
in Astronomy & Space
Hidden from our sight, the Westerhout 43 star-forming region is revealed in full glory in this far-infrared image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. This giant cloud, where a multitude of massive stars come to life in the billowing gas and dust, is almost 20 000 light-years away from the Sun, in the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle.