Stellar nursery emerges from the darkness with a red glow

Today's Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a rare look inside a distant stellar nursery.  Stars are born in places we rarely get to see up close. These hidden pockets of gas and dust sit far beyond our neighborhood, yet they shape the story of galaxies.  Stellar nursery makes an appearance  Every so often, a new image lets us peer into one of these nurseries. That’s the case with Hubble’s new view of N159, a cold hydrogen cloud about...