The Lupus 3 Wall Art including Frame Canvas dust and hot young stars

dust and hot young stars lies in the heart of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer)

and much of it centers on understanding dark matter

while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen

the neighbouring Magellanic Clouds

The Lupus 3 Wall Art including Frame Canvas dust and hot young starsThis evocative image shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. This picture was taken with the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope