An unprecedented view from the Gemini South telescope in Chile probes a swarm of young and forming stars that appear to have been shocked into existence. The group,known as N159W, is located some 158000 light years absent in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), or a satellite to our Milky Way Galaxy. Despite the group's distance beyond our galaxy the extreme resolution of the image presents researchers with a fresh perspective on how prior generations of stars can trigger,or shock, the formation of a novel generation of stars.
Source: phys.org