#lh 95

[nasaimages]

NASA Image of the Day (July 14, 2026)

Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars

A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Da Rio (The University of Virginia),

[chibinotan]

New Stars

[mostly-history]

Stellar nursery LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Turbulence forms deep within a cloud of dust, causing “knots” with enough mass to make the gas and dust collapse under its own gravitational attraction.  This is the beginning of the birth of a star.

As the cloud collapses (not always at a steady pace), the material at its centre begins to heat up.  This is a protostar, and it will eventaully become a star.  The protostar begins to gather dust and gas, not all of which will end up as part of the star.  It takes a star the size of the Sun about 50 million years to mature to adulthood from the beginning of the collapse.

A star is fuelled by the fusion of hydrogen to helium deep within its interior.  Energy flows outwards, which makes the star shine, and also prevents it from collapsing inwards under its own weight.

[spinningblueball]

LH 95 is a star forming region within a nearby galaxy that astronomers have been observing for years. massive stars (blue), many dim and young stars (yellow) .

[startorialist]

Maybe I was hoping we would never have to do another one of these, but today’s news from Somalia broke my heart again. I hope against hope that this is the last flag image we make.

Image: LH 95 observed by Hubble

--Emily

[chibinotan]

Low-Mass and Massive Young Stars

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Stars Forming in Dorado

[startorialist]

In honor of Towel Day, here are some interstellar towel designs from Shoenstaub (we’ve posted their rugs before) with help from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Black & blue nebula (LH 95)

Black & white nebula

(really bothering me that I can’t identify it -

Tarantula Nebula

maybe?)

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-- Emily