NGC 3293 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Framed Canvas Its spiral arms appear distorted

Its spiral arms appear distorted and displaced above the main plane of the galaxy

with an age of about 350 years

a carbon star that is near the end of its lifecycle

At the recession velocity of NGC 4945

massive star near the bubble's centre sweeps through the surrounding molecular cloud

NGC 3293 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Framed Canvas Its spiral arms appear distortedIn this image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at ESOs La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. The star cluster, known as NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million years ago, but as stars began to form it became the bright group we see here. Clusters like this are celestial laboratories that allow