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Blue and orange stars shine through a wispy bubble of gas; the center is mostly clear, but blue and gray tendrils snake throughout most of the rest of the image. The background of the image is filled with other stars.

Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image in the upper central region.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, D. Gouliermis

TakenSeptember 3, 2026

Image CreditNASA, ESA/Hubble, D. Gouliermis

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