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Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF
Composite ALMA image of NGC 6334I, a star-forming region in the Cat\'s Paw Nebula, taken with the Band 10 receivers, ALMA\'s highest-frequency vision. The blue component is heavy water (HDO) streaming away from either a single protostar or a small cluster of protostars. The orange region is the \"continuum emission\" in the same region, which scientists found is extraordinarily rich in molecular fingerprints, including glycoaldehyde, the simplest sugar-related molecule.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/news/2018-alma-band10/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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