Another Hubble Image. It's a wonder that I'm a biologist and not an astronomer.

"Primitive teacher. Bright newborn stars shape a nebula -- a glowing cloud of dust and gas -- through their luminous energy, while the nebula keeps the energy from dissipating into the galaxy. This star forming region, N90, is located near the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located 200,000 light-years from the Earth. The primitive N90 enables researchers to study the formation of stars in a galaxy different from our own."

Photo: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Pulled from a slideshow on the NYT site: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/04/science/space/080508-Hubble_6.html