NASA publishes an image of ghostly blue objects, immersed in the cosmos

Image: ESA / Hubble / NASA, K. Stapelfeldt

When a star is born, a chaotic light show follows.

NASA's long-standing Hubble Space Telescope has captured bright, bright clusters moving into the cosmos about 1,000 light-years from Earth. The space agency has described these objects as a "smoking gun" as an obvious evidence of a newly formed star – as new stars project colossal amounts of energy-rich matter called plasma into space.

Viewed as the blue and ephemeral tufts at the top center of the new image below, there are telltale signs of a gas or plasma rich in energy, colliding with a huge collection of dust and of gas in distant spaces.

As NASA says, these blue masses are transitory creations in the cosmos because "they disappear into nothingness after a few tens of thousands of years".

Image: ESA / Hubble / NASA / K. Stapelfeldt

These blue tufts are moving at 150,000 mph to the upper left corner (from our point of view, anyway). In total, there are five of these ghostly tufts, crossing the space.

NASA does not identify the new star itself, called SVS 13, perhaps because it is masked by thick clouds of cosmic matter.

This collection of dust and gas is part of a distant nebula, often consisting of exploding stars remnants swirling through the infinity of space.