Right across the rest of the nebula, it is seeded with glowing red clumps and thick filaments, regions where star birth is going on but still concealed. These areas are cosmic nurseries of ...

Gerardo N. Rigiroli from Buenos Aires, Argentina The nebula NGC 3503 in Carina is a stellar nursery that glows brightly at the center of this image, surrounded by ghostly tendrils of gas and dust ...