W3 Star-Forming Complex in Perseus by Spitzer and SOFIA
This mid-infrared image of the W3A star cluster in the inset was captured by the FORCAST camera on the SOFIA flying observatory in 2011. It is overlaid on a near-infrared image of the W3 star-forming region from the Spitzer space telescope. The SOFIA image scale is 150 x 100 arcseconds, and the red, green and blue colors represent 37, 20 and 7 μm. The red, green and blue colors in the background image from Spitzer represent 7.9, 4.5, 3.6 μm.
A SOFIA image reveals details in a star-forming region.
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SOFIA image, inset: Red, Green, Blue = 37, 20, 7.7 μm; NASA / DLR / USRA / DSI / FORCAST team / F. Salgado, A. Tielens, J. De Buizer.
(Spitzer image, background: Red, Green, Blue = 7.9, 4.5, 3.6 μm; NASA / Caltech - JPL.
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