Nessie Nebula shows how shocks can birth new stars

This colorful composite, captured by the now-defunct Spitzer Space Telescope, shows dark, smoky filaments snaking across a portion of the Nessie Nebula. In the center bottom of the image, a giant tear-shaped yellow bubble crashes into dark, stringy clouds. Right where the bubble intersects with the filament lies a luminous protostar dubbed AGAL337.916-00-477. Its locationContinue reading “Nessie Nebula shows how shocks can birth new stars”
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