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Herschel Cool Universe Artist Concept

Herschel Cool Universe Artist Concept
Date taken Tue Mar 05 2013 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Rosette Nebula · Herschel Space Observatory Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Artist impression of Herschel is set against an image captured by the observatory, showing baby stars forming in the Rosette nebula. The bright spots are dusty cocoons containing massive forming stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our own sun.