Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas birthing many stars within its

birthing many stars within its clouds of cold hydrogen

Together with five neighbouring bubbles

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team)

It is being formed by an O star

Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas birthing many stars within itsThe smokey black silhouette in this new image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionised hydrogen an HII region known as Gum 15. In wide field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula. These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are