“This scene lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy positioned about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa,” the Hubble astronomers stated in a declaration.

“With a mass equivalent to 10-20% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the biggest of the lots of little galaxies that orbit our Galaxy.”

“The Large Magellanic Cloud is home to numerous huge excellent nurseries where gas clouds, like those scattered throughout this image, coalesce into brand-new stars.”

The brand-new Hubble image illustrates a part of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s second-largest star-forming area, N11.

“The most huge and respected star-forming area in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula, is a regular target for Hubble,” the astronomers stated.

“We see intense, young stars illuminating the gas clouds and shaping clumps of dust with effective ultraviolet radiation.”

“This image weds observations made approximately 20 years apart, a testimony to Hubble’s durability,” they included.

“The very first set of observations, which were performed in 2002-2003, taken advantage of the charming level of sensitivity and resolution of the then-newly-installed Advanced Camera for Surveys.”

“We turned Hubble towards the N11 star cluster to do something that had actually never ever been done in the past at the time: brochure all the stars in a young cluster with masses in between 10% of the Sun’s mass and 100 times the Sun’s mass.”

“The 2nd set of observations originated from Hubble’s most recent cam, the Wide Field Camera 3.”

“These images concentrated on the dirty clouds that steep the cluster, bringing a brand-new point of view on cosmic dust.”