Wired Space Photo of the Day: High-Mass Star Formation http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, ESA?s Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. W3 is a giant molecular cloud containing an enormous stellar nursery, some 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of our Milky Way Galaxy?s main spiral arms.



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