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NGC 6357: A star formation region about 5,500 light years from Earth.

This composite image captures the star formation region called NGC 6357 located within the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays from Chandra and ROSAT (purple) reveal hundreds of point sources, which are the young stars in NGC 6357, as well as diffuse X-ray emission from hot gas. These have been combined with infrared data from Spitzer (orange) and optical data from the SuperCosmos survey (blue) to complete this spectacular cosmic vista.
September 14, 2017
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