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A candy..! The nebula known as N11, with clusters of bright stars embedded in pink fluffy clouds of gas, this exceptionally energetic star-forming region. The Sugar Cotton Nebula is formally known as IRAS 17150-3224, as it was discovered by the IRAS Infrared Space Observatory.
N11 is a well-studied region that extends over 1,000 light-years. It is the second largest region of star formation within the Great Magellanic Cloud and has produced some of the most massive stars known. It is the stellar birth process which gives it its distinctive appearance to N11. It has detected the presence of three successive generations of stars, each of which has been formed increasingly far from the center of the nebula. This is because the successive batches of star formation are generated when the stellar winds of the first generation stars compress gas and dust around them by triggering a second batch of stars.
The Cotton Candy Nebula as seen by Hubble. Image source: [2]