H II Region | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt t-shirt The bubble-shaped shroud of gas

The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 18 million km/h

new stars are forming and beginning to emerge into the wild

and is a supernova remnant

the dust also scatters blue light from the distant stars and makes the central part of this huge starscape appear very red

This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

H II Region | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt t-shirt The bubble-shaped shroud of gasTwo of the skys more famous residents share the stage with a lesser known neighbour in this enormous three gigapixel image from ESOs VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2 54, the iconic Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) is in the centre, and the Omega Nebula (Messier 17) to the left. This cosmic trio makes up just a portion of a vast complex of gas and dust within which new stars are springing to life