Counting the Youth in a Middle Aged Galaxy
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Robitaille (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), GLIMPSE Team
Observation • March 10th, 2010 • sig10-002a
sig10-002a
This image is roughly 1/34 of the entire GLIMPSE Survey. This small section is riddled with young stellar objects, counted by Robitaille and his team.
About the Object
- Name
- Milky Way • Galactic Plane • Galactic Center
- Type
- Galaxy > Component > Disk
- Galaxy > Component > Center/Core
- Nebula > Type > Interstellar Medium
- Nebula > Type > Star Formation
Color Mapping
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Infrared | 3.6 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
| Infrared | 4.5 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
| Infrared | 5.8 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
| Infrared | 8.0 µm | Spitzer IRAC |
