Star-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula
Dense filaments of gas in the IC5146 interstellar cloud can be seen clearly in this image taken in infrared light by the Herschel space observatory. The blue region is a stellar nursery known as the Cocoon nebula.
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PIA14038
Date Created
April 13, 2011
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JPL
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