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NGC 1333 star-forming region seen in infrared.
author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Novapix
reference: a-neb13-33004
Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 23 cm
Located between 700 and 1000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, the reflection nebula called NGC 1333 is seen here in infrared pictured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars in NGC 1333 do not form a single cluster, but are split between two sub-groups. One group is to the north near the nebula, dominated by the infrared light from warm dust shown as red in the image. The other group is south, where the features shown in yellow and green abound in the densest part of the natal gas cloud. The knotty yellow-green features are glowing shock fronts where jets of material, spewed from extremely young embryonic stars, are plowing into the cold, dense gas nearby.
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