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Hubble captures 30,000 newborn stars in cosmic cycle of destruction and creation

A new image of nebula N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals how massive stars simultaneously destroy and create their stellar nurseries.

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What to know

  • Hubble captured nearly 30,000 newborn stars in nebula N44, a superbubble 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  • The image illustrates stellar feedback: massive stars destroy the gas clouds that created them through powerful winds and supernovae, while simultaneously triggering star formation in surrounding compressed gas.
  • N44 contains about half a million stars total and offers astronomers a rare window into how long star formation takes.

“This is known as "stellar feedback" — when massive stars heat, ionize and disperse the gas and dust around them, making star formation impossible in their vicinity. Meanwhile, their winds can squeeze neighboring gas clouds until they become dense enough to collapse under their own gravity and make new stars.”

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Hubble Space Telescope ObservatoryN44 (LHA 120-N44) Superbubble nebula

Hubble captures 30,000 newborn stars in cosmic cycle of destruction and creation
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    Hubble releases image of N44 superbubble showing stellar feedback cycle

    Live Science publishes analysis of a new Hubble Space Telescope image revealing almost 30,000 newborn stars around an enormous cavity in nebula N44, located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image captures the process of stellar feedback, where massive stars simultaneously destroy and create their birthplace.

    “It looks like a gigantic hole punched through a cloud, but this spectacular new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures something more complicated: a cosmic cycle of destruction and creation.”
    — Live Science
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