Synopsis
Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a turbulent nest of giant newborn stars too shrouded in dust to be seen with visible light. This movie highlights this stellar nursery, called DR21, and illustrates what a human eye might see if it could be re-tuned to see different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. It shows the area surrounding DR21 in shifting wavelengths of light, beginning with the visible and ending with the new Spitzer infrared observations. The view changes in…
Uploader's description on archive.org
More like this
- The Tarantula Nebula (2004)
- A More Spectacular Sombrero (2005)
- Spitzer's Delicate Ring Flower (2005)
- Cigar Galaxy up in Smoke (2006)
- Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems (2004)
- Visible-Infrared Whirlpool (2004)
- Hot, Dry and Cloudy (2005)
- TRACE observes the X-ray flare over AR9906 (2002)
- Solar Tsunamis (2005)
- NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace (2008)