Westerhout 40
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Westerhout 40 or W40 is a star-forming region in the Milky Way located in the constellation Serpens. In this region, interstellar gas forming a diffuse nebula surrounds a cluster of several hundred ne
W40 as seen in the infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
View of the core of the molecular cloud as seen by Herschel/SPIRE at 500 μm. Overlaid (white circles) are young stars detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Spitzer Space Telescope mosaic image of W40.
A close-up of an IRDC in the Spitzer image.
Herbig Ae/Be star
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A Herbig Ae/Be star is a pre-main-sequence star – a young star of spectral types A or B. These stars are still embedded in gas-dust envelopes and are sometimes accompanied by circumstellar disks. Hydr
IRAS 12196-6300 is located just under 2300 light-years from Earth.
Herbig Ae/Be Star V1025 Tauri from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
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