Check out this Space.com short video narrated by David Sky Brodie, featuring the cosmic gas cloud Gum 15 which lies 3,000 light-years from Earth. The nebula is playing nurse-maid to several super-massive stars that, when they enter their "young adult" stage will begin to tear Gum 15 apart. Plus due to the fact that super massive stars have very short lives that when they exhaust their fuel, they will go supernova and the resulting explosion will take Gum 15 with them.
This new data comes from representatives with the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which released the film and photo, from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile July 2.
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