Stellar Nurseries RCW120 Messenger Bag

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Stellar Nurseries RCW120 Messenger Bag

tagged with: star clusters, nebulae, gstlnrsr, rcw120, star nurseries, star forming regions, galaxies, cosmological, astronomy pictures, ionised gas clouds, european southern observatory, starfields, eso, vista

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series

A fantastic messenger bag featuring a colour composite image of RCW120.

It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed.

The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red).

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Image code: gstlnrsr

ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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