来源： Space.com
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This new image is part of a larger effort by astronomers to catalog roughly 50,000 H II regions in nearby star-forming galaxies. BY systematically mapping these glowing clouds in galaxies like NGC 4535, astronomers can better understand where and how stars form, how long star-forming regions last and how newborn stars affect the cold gas from which they came, which is part of NASA’s larger PHANGS observing program.