Image of the Day: The Festive Beauty of Molecular-Cloud Star Birth
The X-ray image of the young molecular cloud complex obtained by the Chandra X-ray observatory shows the new star formation of W3 in the Perseus arm arm of the Milky Way -arms of spiral galaxies are places full of gas and dust where new stars form. The image above is a composite X-ray image and optical image of the cluster.The X-ray image shows many hundreds of new stellar X-ray sources in the central part of W3 influenced by a nearby “superbubble” expanding into the W3 molecular cloud. Image Credit: Credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State/L.Townsley et al.; Optical: Pal Obs.
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Image of the Day: The Festive Beauty of Molecular-Cloud Star Birth












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