星云壁纸
by IRAC Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/ESA/STScI<br />Visible Light Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/DSS
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This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born. Dubbed "Mountains of Creation" by Spitzer scientists, these towering pillars of cool gas and dust are illuminated at their tips with light from warm embryonic stars. The new infrared picture is reminiscent of Hubble's iconic visible-light image of the Eagle Nebula, which also features a star-forming region, or nebula, that is being sculpted into pillars by radiation and winds from hot, massive stars. The pillars in the Spitzer image are part of a region called W5, in the Cassiopeia …
