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18 September 2013

The Prawn Nebula is a stellar nursery about 6,000 light-years from Earth.  ESO/Martin Pugh
 
The Prawn Nebula is full of hot young stars and star clusters, groups of stars bound together by gravity. Collinder 316 is an open star cluster found within the nebula that contains between 50-100 young stars.
 
The Prawn Nebula is a relatively large stellar nursery, covering a distance 250 light-years, which astronomers say is the "equivalent to four times that of the full moon." The nebula is relatively dim, making it a difficult region for astronomers to study but the new image shows off plenty of star formation activity. In the new image, young stars can be seen as well as darker areas surrounding these objects, caused by the intense stellar wind of young stars pushing away nearby matter.