Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Newborn stars peek out from beneath their blanket of dust in this image of the Rho Ophiuchi nebula. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers and located about 400 light-years from Earth, it's one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system.
The youngest stars in this image are surrounded by dusty disks of material from which the stars — and their potential planetary systems — are forming. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal material, are blue. The extended white nebula right of center is a region of the cloud that glows in infrared light due to the heating of dust by bright young stars near the cloud's right edge.
Read more about this image here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA10181
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