The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimeters coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.

Credit:ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: September 25, 2013

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