
This map illustrates the numerous star-forming clouds, called cold cores, that European Space Agency Planck observed throughout our Milky Way galaxy. Planck detected around 10,000 of these cores, thousands of which had never been seen before.
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PIA13779
Date Created
January 11, 2011
Center
JPL
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