A hole in space
This was how the team working with the Herschel infrared space telescope named this picture of a star formation area. In actual fact, the European observatory detected a small black area in this bright nebula (near to the centre of the photograph). Astronomers think that one of the gestating suns has “pierced” the gas clouds with the force of the powerful jets that it gives off during its birth.
Credit: ESA/HOPS Consortium

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