Stock Photo - The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel The outstretched ´wings´ of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop of a colder medium Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star This hot gas creates the ´wings´ of our angel A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an ´hourglass´ shape

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