Star power

CREDIT: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & Frédérique Motte, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/Irfu – CNRS/INSU – Univ. Paris Diderot, France

I'm not much of an astrophysicist. I would embarrass Bill Nye the Science Guy, to say nothing of Neil deGrasse Tyson. But I can appreciate a really cool picture. This one comes from the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory, and it shows Cygnus-X, an extremely active star nursery in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This constellation is also known as the Northern Cross and its largest star (called Deneb) is part of the Summer Triangle.
But what is really cool is how photogenic those embryonic stars are.