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Star-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula
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Dense filaments of gas in the IC5146 interstellar cloud can be seen clearly in this image taken in infrared light by the Herschel space observatory. The blue region is a stellar nursery known as the Cocoon nebula.
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Credit lineStar-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula. NASA/JPL, 2011-04-13. Public domain. ID: PIA14038.
