Friday, September 28, 2007

A Galactic Star Forming Region in Infrared 1.5

I found this picture particularly interesting because I do not know how stars form, nor have I ever seen a picture of one. The picture shows a section of the Milky Way in which stars form, some of which are so dark that if we lived there, we would see an empty sky. Some of the dust and clouds are so cold that even in infrared light, they appear utterly black. Below one of these, we can see the red supernova remnant of a young star that rapidly exploded due to its extreme mass.

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