Splashy portrait helps explain how stars form
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 00:56
in Astronomy & Space
Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, star-forming region. The multi-wavelength picture combines infrared, visible and X-ray light from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-Ray telescope, respectively...
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