Baby stars 'bursting from their natural cocoons' in amazing Dark Energy Camera imagery

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee seen "bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149," according to NOIRLab.

Credit:
Images and Videos: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos, Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Bartmann/D. de Martin Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin Music: Stellardrone - Airglow