Babies!
This is a wonderful infrared image (please click on it for lovely larger view) of a region of star formation called the Rosette Nebula.
It comes from the Herschel space observatory, which was launched (along with the Planck observer) by the European Space Agency (ESA) almost a year ago, you may recall.
From the ESA website, here’s a bit more about what this is: […] Click to continue reading this post
