Dark Wombs of Stars, JPL/NASA images
Summary
This image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, reveals some of the coldest and darkest material in our galaxy. The yellow filaments show the coldest dust dotted with the youngest embryonic stars.
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Date
02/10/2009
Source
NASA
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