A Nearby Stellar Cradle
The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain hundreds to thousands of hot, massive, young stars known as O and B stars.
- Date
- 2012-11-07
- Photographer / author
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al., Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"A Nearby Stellar Cradle" (2012-11-07). NASA/JPL/X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al., Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA16438Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16389.
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