Star Formations (IMAGE)

Rice University

Star Formations

Caption

In this compilation, each black-and-white image corresponds to the color image above. In the black-and-white frames, black corresponds to atomic hydrogen and white to molecular hydrogen. In the color frames, red shows molecular hydrogen, green shows where hydrogen has been ionized and blue traces high ionization gas near massive O-type stars.

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P. Hartigan/Rice University

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