PIX4620798: Nebula N159 in the Great Magellan Cloud - N159 star forming region in Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): N159 is a star-forming region located in the galaxy of the Great Magellan Cloud. Image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material. At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation. N159 is located over 160 000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula, another massive star-forming complex within the LMC / Bridgeman Images
LRI4625539: Bust of Pyrrhus I (or Pyrrhos) king of Epirus from 306 to 272 BC. Coming from Ercolano (Herculanum). Based on an original of 290 BC. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale — Bust of Pyrrhus of Epirus (319-272 BC). Roman copy after original c.290 BC. Marble, from Ercolano (Herculanum). Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy, Roman / Bridgeman Images