Snake Filamentary Cloud (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Snake Filamentary Cloud

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The Snake is a serpentine-shaped, extremely filamentary cloud. In this infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the blue dots are stars relatively undimmed by dust, while the red dots are embedded, forming stars.

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Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech/S. Carey (SSC/Caltech)

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