Nascent protostars glow

Credit: NASA/JPL/CALTECH
Nascent protostars glow inside an opaque condensation of dense gas in this infrared image captured by NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility, newly renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope. The inset shows the same scene in visible light, which does not penetrate the gas cloud in the Elephant's Trunk...

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