Churning Out Stars
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main spiral arms as seen by ESA Herschel space observatory.
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PIA16883
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March 29, 2013
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JPL
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