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In the Blackest Night, a Green Ring Nebula

In the Blackest Night, a Green Ring Nebula
Date taken Wed Jun 15 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This glowing emerald nebula seen by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope is named RCW 120; this region of hot gas and glowing dust can be found in the murky clouds encircled by the tail of the constellation Scorpius.