article_snippet.sent: And this latest image is no exception, revealing a fascinating cluster of stars in the constellation.
article_snippet.sent: The cluster is between six and 13 light-years across but only two million years old, and thus contains some of the hottest, brightest and most massive stars in the galaxy.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the biggest stars in the cluster unleash torrents of ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds of charged particles that disrupt the surrounding cloud of hydrogen gas.
article_snippet.sent: As the clusters is very young in astronomical terms, it has not had time to disperse it stars into deep space, so it provides astronomers an opportunity to gather information on how clusters like this form.
article_snippet.sent: its stars are unleashing a torrent of ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-force winds streaming with charged particles, etching away the enveloping hydrogen gas cloud from where the cluster formed .
article_snippet.sent: its stars are between 1 million and 2 million years old and have not yet ignited the hydrogen in its stars cores.
article_snippet.sent: The bluish haze is an indicator of oxygen gas in the nebula .