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...Smithsonian Center. Foster and Goodman summarized their findings in a paper submitted for publication to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Traditional images of nebulae, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, employ only the visible light spectrum. While these images can be impressive, they reveal only the surface of the cosmic clouds??€”not the deeper and denser regions in which stars are formed. Foster and Goodman were taking images of a nebula using near-infrared bands—which are far outside the visible light range—when they found something new. They discovered that ambient light from...