# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CGc8YAjl61a
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733830-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-10-17T17:00:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Stellar Babies!

This is where stars are born. 

NASAHubble snapped this image of a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for short. This object is formally known as J025157.5+600606.

When a massive new star starts to shine while still within the cool molecular gas cloud from which it formed, its energetic radiation can ionize the cloud’s hydrogen and create a large, hot bubble of ionized gas. Amazingly, located within this bubble of hot gas around a nearby massive star are the frEGGs: dark compact globules of dust and gas, some of which are giving birth to low-mass stars. The boundary between the cool, dusty frEGG and the hot gas bubble is seen as the glowing purple/blue edges in this fascinating image.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai

#NASA #Hubble #Space #StellarNursery #Stars #TheseCheeksArentPinchable

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