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Early Universe, Star Formation Lynx arc, super-cluster that contains a million blue-white stars twice as hot as similar stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The Lynx arc is one million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical 'starbirth' region visible with small telescopes. The stars in the Lynx arc are more than twice as hot as the Orion Nebula's central stars, with sun face temperatures up to 80 000°C. Though there are much bigger and brighter star-forming regions than

Zooming into Star Cluster RCW 38 | ESO Support FriendsofNASA.org | This zoom video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and ends with a close-up look at the dramatic star formation region RCW 38 in the constellation of Vela (The Sails). The final view of this region was captured during testing of the HAWK-I camera with the GRAAL adaptive optics system, which is installed on the European Southern Observatory 's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Distance: about 5,