Cosmic Playground
by Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly - Fine Art Photography
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Cosmic Playground
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Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly - Fine Art Photography
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Photograph - Photograph
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Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this view showing a portion of sky near Canis Major, infrared data from Spitzer are green and blue, while longer-wavelength infrared light from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) are red.
The jets appear in green, while young stars are a yellow-orange hue. Some of the jets can be seen as streaks, while others appear as blobs because only portions of the jet can be seen. In some cases, the stars producing jets can't be seen while their jets can. Those stars are so embedded in their dusty cocoon that they are too faint to be seen at Spitzer's wavelengths.
This is a lesser-known region of star formation, located near the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy. Spitzer is showing that even these more sparse regions of the galaxy are aglow with stellar youth.
I have given this high resolution deep space Spitzer photograph a special fine art treatment that turns an ordinary telescope image into a breathtaking, high quality, fine art photograph.
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December 13th, 2014
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