RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth. This image is part of a large collection of images of merging galaxies taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
- Date
- 2008-10-06
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXO/CfA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth" (2008-10-06). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXO/CfA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11226Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15565.
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