Heart and Soul Nebulae with spectra overlaid
Heart and Soul Nebulae with Spectra
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W3, one of the 25 Milky Way regions the HyGAL project will study, is seen as the glowing white area in the upper right of this image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae, taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). SOFIA looked at the abundances of six hydride molecules in W3, the spectra of two of which are shown in the box at left.

Credit
Nebulae: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA; Spectra: Jacob et al.
Image Number
SCI2022_0018