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Cat’s Paw Nebula – SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

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Date: 2021-07-06 00:00:00

The Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), imaged here by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope using the IRAC instrument, is a star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. The dark filament running through the middle of the nebula is a particularly dense region of gas and dust. The inset shows the region of a newly visible high-mass protostar with pre- and post-outburst luminosity imaged by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, respectively. Credits: Cat’s Paw Nebula: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Left inset: De Buizer et al. 2000; Right inset: Hunter et al. 2021

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