This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula RCW 7, which lies just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. , which is a dense interstellar region where new stars form. This particular nebula, known as RCW 7, is located just over 5,300ionizes hydrogen in the nebula, creating the soft pinkish glow among the curling clouds.
"Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into very young, developing stars, called, which are still surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust," NASA officials said in the statement."The protostars forming in RCW 7 are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionizing radiation and fierce stellar winds that transformed the nebula into a H II region.
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