Glowing Stellar Nursery Nebula RCW120 in Scorpius | ESO

Glowing Stellar Nursery Nebula RCW120 in Scorpius | ESO

Color composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionized gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. RCW 120 is an emission nebula and H II region in the southern Milky Way located around 4,300 light-years from Earth. The 870-micron submillimeter-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimeter emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionized gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red).

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The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a ground-based imaging survey of the entire sky in several colors of light produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute through its Guide Star Survey group.

Credit: ESO/APEX/DSS2/SuperCosmos/Deharveng (LAM)/Zavagno (LAM)
Release Date: Nov. 11, 2008

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