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Seeing Beyond the Monkey Head
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Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, as seen by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Found in the constellation Orion, NGC 2174 is located around 6,400 light-years away. Some of the clouds in the region resemble the face of a monkey in visible-light images, hence the nebula's nickname: the "Monkey Head." However, in infrared images such as this, the monkey disappears.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSeeing Beyond the Monkey Head. NASA/JPL, 2015-08-20. Public domain. ID: PIA19836.
