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Cygnus-X
The Cygnus-X star formation region as seen in the infrared with the Herschel Space Telescope. Most of this image is produced by warm dust heated by ultraviolet light from the new stars. A new paper presents a new, more accurate technique for deriving the temperature and properties of the dust from such images.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Herschel, M.Hennemann & F. Motte
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