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NGC 604 is similar to familiar star-birth regions in our Milky Way galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is vastly larger in extent and contains many more recently formed stars. It contains more than 200 brilliant blue stars within a cloud of glowing gases some 1,300 light-years across, nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula.
See Related Chandra X-Ray Image and Full Caption: http://www.sflorg.com/observatories/chandra/chandra_41
More Information and addtional Hubble Image: http://www.sflorg.com/observatories/hubble/hubble_08
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