A 'starburst' is the focus of a new image that shows off the sheer power of the Hubble space telescope - capturing millions of young stars being born in 30 Doradus, a star-forming complex in the heart of the Tarantula nebula.
It's one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photographs - released to celebrate the space telescope's 22nd anniversary - and captures space oddities such as the fastest-rotating stars ever detected.
The nebula is 170,000 light years from Earth - 'next door' in galactic terms - so Hubble can pick out individual stars in the prolific star-forming region
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