Fighting Dragons of Ara (NGC 6188 and 6164) by Michael Sidoni.
Clouds of swirling purple, green and orange gas and dust that appear as ‘fighting dragons’, shaped by the recent birth of large stars much bigger and brighter than our Sun.
One such star can be seen to the lower left of the image within two shells of glowing gas.
The image gives a snapshot of the chaotic stellar nurseries in which stars are born.
Our own Sun probably formed in similar circumstances 4.5 billion years ago.
Picture: Michael Sidonio
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