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Home Technology Space Where tomorrow’s stars will be born

Where tomorrow’s stars will be born

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:51
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Sagittarius B2 is one of the largest clouds of molecular gas in the Milky Way, shown here as the bright orange-red region at left and center (submillimeter-wavelength ATLASGAL data). This composite image includes infrared data (green and blue) from the Midcourse Space Experiment. Astronomers love their sky maps, and this latest is a doozie. It reveals thousands of previously undiscovered knots of cold cosmic dust, each a potential star waiting to be born.




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