N44 H II Region Wall Art including Frame t-shirt These dark chunks of sky

These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are obscuring the bright

Astronomers aren't sure how rings like this form in galaxies but some theories suggest they arise out of gravitational disturbances with neighboring galaxies

large quantities of some of the universe's heaviest elements were forged

In this Spitzer image

Image Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/T

N44 H II Region Wall Art including Frame t-shirt These dark chunks of skyThis image of the spectacular N44 H II region in the LMC displays (very nearly) its central region, which is dominated by a large, ring shaped nebula that includes a bright stellar association of very luminous stars. It emits X rays this is interpreted as a sign that several heavy stars in this area have exploded as supernova during the last few million years. N44 is a very bright, rich and well studied complex in the LMC, somewhat apart from the