Cat's Paw Nebula: Celestial cat's hidden secrets revealed
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:40
in Astronomy & Space
The Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334, is a huge stellar nursery, the birthplace of hundreds of massive stars. In a magnificent new ESO image, the glowing gas and dust clouds obscuring the view are penetrated by infrared light and some of the Cat's hidden young stars are revealed.