14 DAY TRIAL // A recent series of observations conducted using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope managed to reveal an interesting stellar grouping called R136 inside the 30 Doradus Nebula. The latter is a very large stellar nursery located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
Together with the Small Magellanic Cloud, the LMC orbit the Milky Way, and are the closest known dwarf galaxies to our own. Despite being larger, our galaxy cannot compare to the amount of new stars that 30 Doradus produces in a single year.
As this image shows, massive numbers of blue, newly-formed stars are springing up all over the place. It was only through the observational powers of the Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 that astronomers were able to see these objects. The stellar nursery is located about 100 light-years away.
The image combines data collected in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light, NASA experts say. Just take a look at how many new stars were just formed in this nursery.