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Stellar Incubators Seen Cooking up Stars
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This image composite compares visible-light and infrared views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the glowing Trifid Nebula, a giant star-forming cloud of gas and dust located 5,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Visible-light images of the Trifid taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Baltimore, Md. (inside left, figure 1) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz., (outside left, figure 1) show a murky cloud lined with dark trails of dust.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineStellar Incubators Seen Cooking up Stars. NASA/JPL, 2005-01-12. Public domain. ID: PIA07226.
