Nebula Doradus Solar Wind Like water in a stream

Like water in a stream as it flows around a boulder

Even though it is a still image

and December 2000

the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator

We love the alien landscape as a backdrop too

Nebula Doradus Solar Wind Like water in a streamJust in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite