"NASA" captures an amazing image of a "butterfly of space" featuring hundreds of young stars

NASA has captured a striking image of the "Space Butterfly" consisting of hundreds of small stars at about 1,400 light-years from the sun. This butterfly is a fog called Westerhout 40 or W40. Huge amount of gas and dust in the space where the new stars are born.

NASA, the US space agency, explained that the material, which forms the W40, emerges from a dense series of stars on either side of the central constellation. Most of these stars are heated and the largest is W40 IRS 1a, located near the center of the constellation. "

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The latest image of NASA is actually the result of the integration of four infrared images of Westerhout 40 taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The blue and red organic particles shine on the image, while the younger stars of the butterfly shine in yellow, while the stars shine in the background in blue, with a shorter wavelength. As a "nursery" for hundreds of small stars.

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