Rosette Nebula Gives Birth to Stars Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) This visible light wide-field image

This visible light wide-field image of the cluster was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2

taken in infrared light

Image Credit: NASA

bright feature at the top of the image is the well-known Orion Nebula (Messier 42)

Rosette Nebula Gives Birth to Stars Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) This visible light wide-field imageThis 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, constellation. Herschel collected the infrared light given out by dust. The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars, which will grow up to 10 times the mass of our Sun. The small spots near the center of the image are lower mass stellar