File:Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion.jpg
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English: Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation.
Best known as Messier 78, the two round greenish nebulae are actually cavities carved out of the surrounding dark dust clouds. The extended dust is mostly dark, even to Spitzer's view, but the edges show up in mid-wavelength infrared light as glowing red frames surrounding the bright interiors. The light from young, newborn stars are starting to carve out cavities within the dust, and eventually, this will become a larger nebula. A string of baby stars that have yet to burn their way through their natal shells can be seen as red pinpoints on the outside of the nebula. Eventually these will blossom into their own glowing balls, turning this two-eyed eyeglass into a many-eyed monster of a nebula. |
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Source | Spitzer |
Author | NASA/JPL-Caltech |
This is a three-color composite that shows infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6- and 4.5-micron light and green shows light of 5.8 and 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer.
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Copyright holder | http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/copyright.shtml |
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Credit/Provider | NASA/JPL-Caltech |
Headline | The cosmos sport a pair of infrared shades, as seen in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
Source | Spitzer Space Telescope |
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Date and time of data generation | 29 June 2011 |
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Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 13:28, 29 June 2011 |
Color space | sRGB |
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA, 91125 USA |
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