Episodic Accretion in High-Mass Protostars
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The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope using the IRAC instrument, is a star-forming region inside 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 the high-mass protostar with pre- and post-outburst luminosity.
Credit
Cat’s Paw Nebula: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Left inset: De Buizer et al. 2000; Right inset: Hunter et al. 2021
Image Number
SCI2021_013
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Episodic Accretion in High-Mass Protostars
Instrument
FORCAST and HAWC+
Location
United States
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