The Hubble Telescope is celebrating its 24th Anniversary by gifting us with a gorgeous photograph.
This 'nearby' star factory is part of the Monkey Head Nebula ... it is 6,400 Light Years away from us. Breathtaking. Some of the stars in that photograph have only just been born.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the very stuff in this photograph is the building blocks upon which we were formed. We were born from stars such as this, and to these stars we will return someday.