Taken 13-Mar-11
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Keywords:art, photography, abstract, digital, milky way, constellation, centaurus, stars, orange, black, ring, circle, astronomy, night sky
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Bursting At The Seams
This bubble of ionized gas and warm dust, called RCW 79, lies in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus, and probably took about one million years to form from the radiation and winds of hot young stars.
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