H II Region | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt t-shirt The bubble-shaped shroud of gas

The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 18 million km/h

and is a supernova remnant

observers reported that it was bright enough to study during full daylight

captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust

H II Region | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt t-shirt The bubble-shaped shroud of gasTwo of the skys more famous residents share the stage with a lesser known neighbour in this enormous three gigapixel image from ESOs VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2 54, the iconic Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) is in the centre, and the Omega Nebula (Messier 17) to the left. This cosmic trio makes up just a portion of a vast complex of gas and dust within which new stars are springing to life