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Showing posts with label structure of stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label structure of stars. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2013

A structure of stars


The complicated filaments of dust and gas that make up this astrophysical nursery home to more than 600 stars in formation. This province was first observed by the Herschel space observatory of ESA.

The province colored blue nebula, known as W40, or Sharpless 2-64, is located 1,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila,