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Black Widow

18 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/E. Church­well (Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Madison) and the GLIMPSE Team

A cos­mic spider-shaped neb­ula hides in a dark cor­ner of space. Astronomers look­ing toward the con­stel­la­tion Circi­nus with earth-based tele­scopes saw only a fuzzy, hourglass-shaped patch of light. But when they turned the dust-piercing, infrared light gath­er­ing NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope at this spot in the sky, they dis­cov­ered a neb­ula bloom­ing with clus­ters of mas­sive young stars. Astronomers called it the “Black Widow Neb­ula.”

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