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remota erroris nebula
Dissipating the mist of error – Dissipando le tenebre dell’errore
Juvenal’s Tenth Satire 3-4
Image: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Resembling the hair in Botticelli’s famous portrait of the birth of Venus, an image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured softly glowing filaments streaming from hot young stars in a nearby nebula. These wispy clouds of glowing gas make up a nebula known as N44C. It is part of the larger N44 complex, which includes young, hot, massive stars, other nebulas, and a “superbubble” blown out by multiple supernova explosions.