RCW120 | Milky Way Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut R Aquarii is a so-called

R Aquarii is a so-called “symbiotic binary”

tuned to detect carbon monoxide molecules in the otherwise invisible hydrogen clouds

Color in this image represents specific infrared wavelengths

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

The Hubble image is the sharpest view of this object ever taken and serves as the ultimate benchmark in terms of resolution

RCW120 | Milky Way Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut R Aquarii is a so-calledColour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. The 870 micron submillimetre wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12 m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised