This firestorm of star birth is lighting up one end of dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639, giving the appearance of a skyrocket with a brilliant blazing head and a long, star-studded tail.
The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015.
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Sánchez Almeida, C. Munoz-Tunon & M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Mendez-Abreu (University of St Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M. Rafelski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) & D. Ceverino (Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University)
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