NASA’s Dark ... Nebula is a vast region, spanning 130 light-years, where young stars are born from collapsing clouds of gas ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula — a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light — creating a swatch of darkness against the glow of bright gas.

The Dark Wolf Nebula, 5,300 light-years from us ... baby stars – dense patches of gas and dust that gravitationally slurp up material from the cloud around them, gaining enough mass to generate the ...