File:Embryonic Stars Amongst Gas and Dust.jpg

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Description	English: This image from the Herschel Observatory reveals some of the coldest and darkest material in our galaxy. The choppy clouds of gas and dust pictured here are just starting to condense into new stars. The yellow filaments show the coldest dust dotted with the youngest embryonic stars. Infrared, or submillimeter, light with a wavelength of 250 microns is represented in blue; 350-micron light in green; and 500-micron light in red. Much of this region of our galaxy would be hidden in visible-light views. The area pictured is in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, 60 degrees from the center. It spans a region 2.1 by 2.1 degrees. This image was taken by Herschel's spectral and photometric imaging receiver. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA.
Date	2 October 2009
Source	http://herschel/index.php?SiteSection=ImageGallery&ViewImage=nhsc2009-020b
Author	ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Image title	This image from the Herschel Observatory reveals some of the coldest and darkest material in our galaxy. The choppy clouds of gas and dust pictured here are just starting to condense into new stars. The yellow filaments show the coldest dust dotted with the youngest embryonic stars. Infrared, or submillimeter, light with a wavelength of 250 microns is represented in blue; 350-micron light in green; and 500-micron light in red. Much of this region of our galaxy would be hidden in visible-light views. The area pictured is in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, 60 degrees from the center. It spans a region 2.1 by 2.1 degrees. This image was taken by Herschel's spectral and photometric imaging receiver. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA.
Width	1,266 px
Height	1,266 px
Compression scheme	LZW
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Orientation	Normal
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Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
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Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
File change date and time	18:10, 1 October 2009
Color space	Uncalibrated