Mounted image 26: Glowing stellar nurseries
Colour-composite image of RCW120 using data from APEX and the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars form.
Credit:
ESO/APEX/DSS2/ SuperCosmos/ Deharveng(LAM)/ Zavagno(LAM)
About the Mounted Image
Buy in shop| Id: | mounted_026 |
| Release date: | 15 March 2011, 17:32 |
| Dimensions: | 40 cm (W) x 50.17 cm (H) |
| Related archive image: | eso0840a |