At 5500 light-years away, the Bear Claw Nebula , as it has also been dubbed, is more than three times as distant as the Orion Nebula , but still close enough for detailed study. The Bear Claw Nebula can be found towards the constellation of Scorpius . In visible light, ionized gas makes NGC 6334 look quite red . The above false-color photograph, however, was taken in infrared light . Current research indicates that the bright sources are very young and massive stars.
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