This stunning image shows a "golden swirl" of newly born stars in a distant galaxy - Interesting Engineering

A new Very Large Telescope image of the galaxy NGC 4303 (Messier 61) shows a golden swirling cloud of baby stars.

"It has an unusually high amount of stars being born and has been used by astronomers as a laboratory to better understand the fascinating phenomena of star formation," the ESO explains. An example … [+756 chars]

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