L1688-NIR (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

L1688-NIR

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Deep near-infrared color composite image of the L1688 cloud in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex from the VISIONS European Southern Observatory public survey, where blue, green and red are mapped to the NIR bands J (1.2 μm), H (1.6 μm) and KS (2.2 μm), respectively.

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João Alves/ESO VISIONS

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