The nebula LHA 120-N44, or N44. Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble/D Gouliermis
NASA and the ESA said the vast central void seen above measures around 210 by 140 light-years in area, and was likely created by the stars visible at its centre.
NASA and the ESA have published striking images of a nebula ‘superbubble’ in the Dorado constellation that were captured using the Hubble Space Telescope.
‘LHA 120-N44’ – or N44 – is described as “a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars and many populations of stars of different ages”.
N44 is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy, according to the space agencies, and about 160,000 light-years away from Earth.
