Star forming region, Nebula RCW 49, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20. $650.00.

Like the Trapezium in the Orion Nebula, this is a womb where stars are being born, and even looks a bit like a womb. It's about 14 thousand light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, measures 350 light-years across, and contains more than 2,200 stars. In the dust clouds you can see about 300 newborn stars; some have protoplanetary discs. The blue-white supergiants in the middle have burned away the dust clouds from which they themselves were formed.