Dark Murky Clouds in the Bright Milky Way
This infrared image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows exceptionally cold, dense cloud cores seen in silhouette against the bright diffuse infrared glow of the plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
- Date
- 2011-08-24
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Dark Murky Clouds in the Bright Milky Way" (2011-08-24). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14723Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16396.
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