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'Interstellar EGGs'

‘Interstellar EGGs’

Eerie, dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from "eggs" - not the barnyard variety - but rather, dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs). Hubble found the "EGGs," appropriately enough, in the Eagle Nebula, a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years from Earth.

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