In the photograph, the structure designated Sh 2-305 is a zone of ionized gas.
Radiation in it
Together with five more neighboring nebulae Sh2-305 belongs to the giant complex of dense gas-dust clouds, and on an even larger scale to the colossal ring-shaped star-forming region, the GS234-02 super-shell.
Observatory Press Service
Structure GS234-02 is located in the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way, in the constellation Puppis.


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