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 Starbirth region NGC 2467, optical image. This is an active stellar nursery where young stars are being born from clouds of dust and gas. NGC 2467 is a young star cluster, only a few million years old. It is around 4500 light years from Earth. The region is also called the Skull and Crossbones, as some resemblance to a skull is seen. This region is located in the constellation Puppis. This image (published in 2018) was obtained with the FORS2 (Focal Reducer and Low Dispersion Spectrograph) instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT).

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