ISO leads our eyes to the young and small star - a seminar
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An image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud taken with ISOCAM
The scattered bright dots are new stars of moderate size, comparable in mass to the Sun. The bright fuzzy object, upwards and slightly to the right of centre, is a new massive star, much heavier than the Sun, still wrapped in the placental cloud from which it
formed. A similar object appears partly veiled towards the bottom right of the picture. The conspicuous wisp right of centre is
the interface betweeen the dense cloud and th
Last Update: 1 September 2019