Sig06-020a

Författare/Upphovsman:

Credit

   NASA/JPL-Caltech/L.Rebull (SSC/Caltech)

Observers

L. Rebull (Spitzer Science Center), T. Spuck (Oil City Area Sr. High School), B. Sepulveda (Lincoln High School), T. Maranto (Phillips Exeter Academy), C. Weehler (Luther Burbank High School), T. Roelofsen (Bassick High School)

Kreditera:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2243-sig06-020a-Baby-Stars-in-the-Witch-Head-Nebula-Revealed-by-Spitzer (direct link)

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/9abed

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

3496 x 2121 Pixel (12526626 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

Baby Stars in the Witch Head Nebula Revealed by Spitzer

Eight hundred light-years away in the Orion constellation, a gigantic murky cloud called the "Witch Head" nebula is brewing baby stars.

The stellar infants are revealed as pink dots in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Wisps of green in the cloud are carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are found on barbecue grills and in automobile exhaust on Earth.

This image was obtained as part of the Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students, involving high school teachers and their students from across the United States.

The infrared image is a three-color composite, in which light with a wavelength of 4.5 microns is blue, 8.0-micron light is green, and 24-micron light is red.

Licens:

Public domain