Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud: A Closer Look | Hubble

Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud: A Closer Look | Hubble

This Hubblecast features a spectacular NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image—one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble

Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser

Animations: Martin Kornmesser

Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Richard Hook, Colleen Sharkey & Eric Schwartz

Narration: Gaitee Hussain

Additional images: Akira Fujii, Eckhard Slawik & Digitized Sky Survey 2

Directed by: Colleen Sharkey

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin

Duration: 4 minutes, 37 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2010

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