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Sharpless 171 (APOD 18 Oct 2008)

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:19 pm
by buzdavis
This is a pretty image, but not the number of triplets (like Orion's belt). Is this usual ?

Re: Sharpless 171

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:28 pm
by neufer
buzdavis wrote:This is a pretty image, but not the number of triplets (like Orion's belt). Is this usual ?
Sharpless 171 star births were all natural and didn't involve any fertility drugs.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081018.html