Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 9, 2012 #1 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Flying along the Vela ridge A beautiful blue butterfly flutters towards a nest of warm dust and gas, above an intricate network of cool filaments in this image of the Vela C region by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.Vela C is the most massive of the four parts of the Vela complex, a massive star nursery just 2300 light-years from the Sun. It is an ideal natural laboratory for us to study the birth of stars. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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