Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  The star 59Ser
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Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583, Jim Thommes
Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583
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Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583

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Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583, Jim Thommes
Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583
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Serpens Cloud Star Forming Region and LDN 583

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This image field shows the so called Serpens Cloud - the bulk of it is the dark region that extends top to bottom on the right of the image. LDN 583 is a dark nebula seen in the lower left portion of the image. The blue reflection nebulae seen at the top are LBN 98 (uppermost) and vdB 123 (just below LBN 98). The Serpens Cloud is a star forming region. This is a heavily studied region; there are a large number of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and pre main sequence stars. The Serpens Cloud ranges in distance from 685 to 815 light years. These forming stars and young stars tend to be embedded in the dust core and many are not seen in the visible spectrum of this image. These 'invisible' stars are revealed in the Infrared (IR) spectrum. The annotated image shows the above image as well as a color mapped image of IR image data The two spectrum bands can be seen with a mouse-over action on the annotated image These objects and some of the brighter stars are identified in the annotated image. There is a slightly larger image scale (close-up) image of vdB 123 in Serpens here. of Horizontal FOV is approximately 120 arc minutes. Full size image scale is 2.77 arcsec/pix.

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