This false-color image was created by mapping the intensity of invisible submillimeter energy emanating from a distance of 7000 light years away.It is the most massive protostar yet observed. Designated NGC 7358 S, it appears to be a small elliptical gas cloud embedded in a filamentary gas cloud.

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