Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
W44 is located around 10,000 light-years away, within a forest of dense star-forming clouds in the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle. This image combines data from ESA Herschel and XXM-Newton space observatories.
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NASA ID
PIA16464
Date Created
November 14, 2012
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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