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Mountains of Creation
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Mountains of Creation |
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This fantastic skyscape [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ ssc2005-23/index.shtml ] lies at the eastern edge of giant stellar nursery W5, about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia [ http://www.astropix.com/HTML/A_FALL/CASS_O.HTM ]. An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/index.shtml ], it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). Still swaddled within the cosmic clouds, newborn stars are revealed [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-23/ ssc2005-23a.shtml ] by Spitzer's penetrating gaze, their formation also triggered [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311034 ] by the massive star. Fittingly dubbed "Mountains of Creation", these interstellar [ http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html ] clouds are about 10 times the size of the analogous Pillars of Creation [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/ 1995/44/image/a ] in M16, made famous in a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope view. W5 is also known as IC 1848 and together with IC 1805 it is part of a complex [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110338 ] region popularly dubbed the Heart and Soul Nebulae [ http://www.astropix.com/HTML/A_FALL/IC1805.HTM ]. The Spitzer image spans about 70 light-years at the distance of W5. |
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Mountains of Creation
| Title |
Mountains of Creation |
| Explanation |
This fantastic skyscape [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ ssc2005-23/index.shtml ] lies at the eastern edge of giant stellar nursery W5, about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia [ http://www.astropix.com/HTML/A_FALL/CASS_O.HTM ]. An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/index.shtml ], it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). Still swaddled within the cosmic clouds, newborn stars are revealed [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-23/ ssc2005-23a.shtml ] by Spitzer's penetrating gaze, their formation also triggered [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311034 ] by the massive star. Fittingly dubbed "Mountains of Creation", these interstellar [ http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html ] clouds are about 10 times the size of the analogous Pillars of Creation [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/ 1995/44/image/a ] in M16, made famous in a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope view. W5 is also known as IC 1848 and together with IC 1805 it is part of a complex [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110338 ] region popularly dubbed the Heart and Soul Nebulae [ http://www.astropix.com/HTML/A_FALL/IC1805.HTM ]. The Spitzer image spans about 70 light-years at the distance of W5. |
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