Near-infrared view of the DR21 Region

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Color Mapping

Band	Wavelength	Telescope
Optical	1.3 µm	DSS
Infrared	1.7 µm	2MASS
Infrared	2.2 µm	Spitzer IRAC

Notes: Multiple image collage; colors refer to primary image

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Astrometrics

Position (undefined): RA = 20^h 38^m 22.2^s; Dec = 42° 4' 7.9"
Field of View: 1.0 x 0.5 degrees
Orientation: North is 101.0° right of vertical
Constellation: Cygnus

Recent News

04.13.04

This near-infrared image, from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), of the DR21 region covers an area about two times that of a full moon. Many stars are discerned in this image because near-infrared light pierces through some of the obscuration of the interstellar dust.

	May 16 Galaxy's Ring of Fire
	May 6 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
	April 3 A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars
	February 7 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes
	January 8 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
	January 8 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega

	News Release Invisible Giants Exposed in New Spitzer Image ssc2004-06
	Image Star Formation in the DR21 Region ssc2004-06a
	Image Star Formation in the DR21 Region ssc2004-06b
	Video Star Formation in the DR21 Region ssc2004-06v1

	Image Star Formation in the DR21 Region ssc2004-06b1
	Image Visible-light view of the DR21 Region ssc2004-06b2
	Image Near-infrared view of the DR21 Region ssc2004-06b3
	Image Spitzer IRAC view of Star Formation in the DR21 Region ssc2004-06a1

	May 16 Galactic Wheels within Wheels
	May 6 An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab
	April 3 Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
	March 19 Infant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles
	February 8 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar