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Sh2-64 in Serpens (Westerhout 40), Jarrett Trezzo
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Sh2-64 in Serpens (Westerhout 40)

Sh2-64 in Serpens (Westerhout 40), Jarrett Trezzo
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Sh2-64 in Serpens (Westerhout 40)

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I had posted a version of this data earlier but was not happy with it at all so I took that down. This is a full reprocess from scratch and I am much happier with how it came out.

This is one of the nearest Type O and B massive star formation sites. There is a high amount of light extinction due to all the intervening dust in the Serpens Molecular Cloud, however, so we can only glimpse the nebula in the visible wavelengths. It is fully visible in infrared though (see: https://bit.ly/2JHGIPj).

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