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Near-infrared image known by
some as the ³Hand of God² shows gas rushing away from the region with the
infrared protostars at the bottom of the top picture. The bottom picture is another
infrared image where BN stands for Becklin-Neugebauer object, a hot B star
just reaching the main sequence.
The Kleinmann-Low nebulae, KL, is a cluster of cool young protostars
detectable only in the infrared.
Remember Weinıs law, hotter things are bluer and cooler things are
redder, and even cooler things are infrareder. The BN and KL stuff is an
example of astronomical minutia (I will
not ask you a question on this on an exam. But the illustration of Wienıs law here is important in
that Weinıs law is very likely to appear on both the midterm and final exams.
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