Stellar Nursey, RCW 34, Gum 19
Richly colored cloud of gas called RCW 34 is a site of star formation in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails). This image was taken using the FORS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. The RCW Catalogue (Rodgers, Campbell, Whiteoak) is an astronomical catalog of high-alpha emission regions in the southern Milky Way. It has 182 objects and includes many of the earlier Gum catalog (84 items) objects, and the later Caldwell catalogue included some RCW. There is also some overlap with the Sharpless catalog-2 (312 items), although it primarily covered the northern hemisphere, whereas the RCW and Gum primarily covered the southern. Release date May 27, 2015.
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