Massive Star Formation Sites Discovered In Milky Way | Video

3,739 views · Published 10 January 2013 · 0:27 · Indexed 11 October 2026

Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Astronomers have located regions of young star and star cluster formation using the Green Bank Telescope, the Arecibo Telescope and data from NASA's Spitzer and WISE satellites.  Astronomers call them HII regions (marked in red).

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