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Fiery ribbon
With its APEX radio telescope located in Chile, the ESO, European Southern Observatory, captured what it has qualified as a “fiery ribbon” in the Orion constellation 1,400 light years away from us. The orange colour in this photograph highlights the cold dust clouds that emit a light that the human eye cannot see. It is such clouds that constitute the basic material for the formation of stars when they cave in on themselves.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

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