Universe - The Final Frontier

 Credits : Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. (David Kirkby/University of California at Irvine/SDSS)

Scientist, with the help of the SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY,  designed the most detailed map of a quarter of the known universe. It is the most detailed yet done. 

Each green dot is a galaxy.

 NASA/ESA/the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

This bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a celestial snow angel. 

It is nearly 2,000 light-years from Earth. 

A massive, young star, IRS 4 is in the middle of the formation. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from it.  from here