Massive Starbirth in N81
A NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope family portrait of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200, 000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small irregular satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

Photo By: NASA, ESA
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