NASA - SPITZER Space Telescope patch.
March 10, 2012
Baby stars are creating chaos 1,500 light-years away in the cosmic cloud of the Orion Nebula. Four massive stars make up the bright yellow area in the center of this false-color image for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Green indicates hydrogen and sulfur gas in the nebula, which is a cocoon of gas and dust. Red and orange indicate carbon-rich molecules. Infant stars appear as yellow dots embedded in the nebula.
For more information about NASA's SPITZER, visit: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ and http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/main/index.html
Image, Text, Credit: NASA.
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