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Star-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula

Star-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula
Date taken Thu Apr 14 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Herschel Space Observatory Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Dense filaments of gas in the IC5146 interstellar cloud can be seen clearly in this image taken in infrared light by the Herschel space observatory. The blue region is a stellar nursery known as the Cocoon nebula.