A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble," called N30B, is inside a larger nebula, named DEM L 106. The larger nebula is embedded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located 160,000 light-years away. The wispy filaments of DEM L 106 fill much of the image.

Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Acknowledgment: M.S. Oey (Lowell Observatory) and Y.-H. Chu (U. of Illinois)

• Hubble Heritage Release