Stunning Image of New Stellar Birth

Recently, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has taken an image of new stars forming about 140,000 light years from the center of the galaxy known as M83.
This galaxy is also known as the southern pinwheel galaxy.

"It is absolutely stunning that we find such an enormous number of young stars up to 140,000 light-years away from the center of M83," said Frank Bigiel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, lead investigator of the new Galaxy Evolution Explorer observations.
Even with our current technology, it is still hard to observe the beginning of star formation. This new discovery really helps astronomers and scientists to understand what exactly happens when stars form.
Astronomers speculate that the young stars seen far out in M83 could have formed under conditions resembling those of the early universe, a time when space was not yet enriched with dust and heavier elements.
This galaxy, M83, is located 15 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra.
You can find more information about this and the new images here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex-20080416.html