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Name, Gum 58 Emission Nebula, outer space image Gift Wrap Paper

tagged with: star clusters, nebulae, rcw120, ionised gas clouds, star nurseries, galaxy stars, outer space photography, deep space astronomy, gstlnrsr, gum 58, starfields, eso, european southern observatory, vista, star forming regions

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A fantastic colour composite image of RCW120 (aka Gum 58).
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).more items with this image
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image code: gstlnrsr

ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
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