RCW120 | Milky Way Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut which Spitzer can see through

which Spitzer can see through

The seething star forming this nebula is 45 times more massive than our sun

HII regions

tuned to detect carbon monoxide molecules in the otherwise invisible hydrogen clouds

R Aquarii is a so-called “symbiotic binary”

RCW120 | Milky Way Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut which Spitzer can see throughColour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. The 870 micron submillimetre wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12 m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised