article_snippet: The bright area at the top left edge is a young star still embedded in The bright area at the top left edge nursery of gas and dust. 
article_snippet: Another remarkable image shows a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust that forms the spiral galaxy NGC 130.
article_snippet: In 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our sun, temporarily making a dull star in an obscure constellation the brightest star in the Milky Way.
article_snippet: The mysterious star, called V838 Monocerotis, has since faded back to obscurity.
article_snippet: This huge, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way .
article_snippet: the Hubble Space Telescope of a phenomenon called a 'light echo' around the star captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 130. 
article_snippet: Taken in 1995, the team revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16.