Nebula NGC 1748 is a gaseous nebula and a site of new star formation located some 165,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud toward the constellation Dorado. Intense ultraviolet radiation from stars recently formed in the nebula has blown a glowing, spherical "bubble" in the nebula, which is visible on the left half of this image. The interaction between gas, dust, radiation, and powerful "winds" ejected by young stars sets the structure of nebula NGC 1748, in the same way that it sets the structure of star-forming nebulae in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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