This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Star forming region Gum 19, infrared image. Clouds of hydrogen gas to the right of this image are illuminated by the supergiant blue star V391 Velorum Gum 19 lies 22,000 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Vela. Image taken by the SOFI instrument on the ESO's (European Southern Observatory) New Technology Telescope (NTT).

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