‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions
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Water ice highlighted
Interstellar dust highlighted
These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactly overlays the dark lanes of interstellar dust, shown in different wavelengths
Water ice highlighted
Interstellar dust highlighted
These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactly overlays the dark lanes of interstellar dust, shown in different wavelengths
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