RCW120: Glowing stellar nurseries
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:39 pm
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New image reveals glowing stellar nurseries
Sub-millimeter light is vital in studying the earliest stages of the birth and life of stars.
Astronomy.com
November 11, 2008
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Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
New image reveals glowing stellar nurseries
Sub-millimeter light is vital in studying the earliest stages of the birth and life of stars.
Astronomy.com
November 11, 2008
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7593
Illustrating the power of sub-millimeter-wavelength astronomy, an Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope image reveals how an expanding bubble of ionized gas about 10 light-years across causes the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps that are the birthplaces of new stars. Sub-millimeter light is the key to revealing some of the coldest material in the universe, such as these cold, dense clouds.
The region, called RCW120, is about 4,200 light-years from Earth, towards the constellation Scorpius. ...