"Star Cluster Shreds Interstellar Dust Cloud in Spectacular Display"
Astronomers captured an image of the Pleiades star cluster tearing a passing cloud of gas and dust into cosmic tatters, with the radiation from its massive, hot, bright blue stars exerting physical pressure on the cloud and stretching it into long filaments that glow with reflected blue starlight. The passing cloud may be part of the much larger Radcliffe Wave, an 8,800 light-year-long structure of gas and dust where new stars are forming, potentially including our own Sun.