Storm of Stars in the Trifid Nebula
Radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, creating the Trifid nebula, as seen here in infrared light by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
- Date
- 2014-01-29
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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