Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. In a search for massive star s, the Hubble Space Telescope has peered into yet another spectacular region of star formation . Visible in the above picture are bright newborn stars , dark filaments of dust , and red-glowing hydrogen gas . Reasons for the bipolar shape of the Papillon Nebula are currently unknown, but might indicate the presence of unseen high-mass star s and a thick gaseous disk .
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