News Photos
Caption:
The nebula RCW49, shown in infrared light in this image from the Spitzer Space
Telescope, is a nursery for newborn stars. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope,
astronomers have found in RCW49 more than 300 newborn or 'protostars,' all
with circumstellar disks of dust and gas. The discovery reveals that galaxies
make new stars at a much more prolific rate than previously imagined. The stelar
disks of dust and gas not only feed material onto the growing new stars, but
can be the raw material for new planetary systems.
Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: May 2004
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