The Milky Way Project Talk

What do the colors represent?

by bobwiersma1322

Spectra of elements? Temperature gradients? Understanding what we are looking at could help me decide whether some are bubbles or not. Some objects appear to be bubbles but with a star in them. What are they?

Posted December 8, 2010 10:44 PM
by ttfnrob admin, scientist

A couple of people have asked so I started a thread about it: DMW10009jb

Posted December 9, 2010 3:34 PM

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