<p>Radiation from a cluster of stars has carved a hollow in the middle of the Soul Nebula, seen in a new mosaic picture from <a id="tz5p" title="NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope" href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wise-20061013.html">NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope</a>, released April 5, 2010.<br><br>The star cluster formed inside the 150-light-year-wide cloud of gas and dust. Even as stellar winds push open the cavity, they compress material near the center of the hollow, spurring new stars to form.</p>
WISE Has Soul
Radiation from a cluster of stars has carved a hollow in the middle of the Soul Nebula, seen in a new mosaic picture from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope, released April 5, 2010.
The star cluster formed inside the 150-light-year-wide cloud of gas and dust. Even as stellar winds push open the cavity, they compress material near the center of the hollow, spurring new stars to form.
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