Fire (NGC 2467) Size:42" x 42" (107 cm x 107 cm) The denser parts of the

The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation much like a towering butte in Utah's Monument Valley withstands erosion by water and wind

Radiation from these stars carved out an expanding bubble of hot gas

pulling nutrients up from the deep ocean

000 miles an hour—fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes

000 stars comprise the cluster

Fire (NGC 2467) Size:42" x 42" (107 cm x 107 cm) The denser parts of theA colorful star forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Looking like a roiling cauldron of some exotic cosmic brew, huge clouds of gas and dust are sprinkled with bright blue, hot young stars. Strangely shaped dust clouds, resembling spilled liquids, are silhouetted against a colorful background of glowing. Like the familiar Orion Nebula, NGC 2467 is a huge cloud of gas mostly hydrogen that