Diffuse X-ray Structures in Massive Star-forming Regions

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Charge-Coupled Devices, Image Detectors, And Ir Detector Arrays, Interstellar Dust Grains, Diffuse Emission, Infrared Cirrus, X-Ray, Stellar Clusters And Associations, Star Formation

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory is providing remarkable new views of massive star-forming regions. Very young complexes are suffused by parsec-scale diffuse X-ray structures outlined by heated dust seen in mid-infrared images; these are the long-sought signatures of multi-million-degree plasmas created by fast O-star winds. In older regions we see much brighter diffuse emission regions; these are likely the X-ray remains of massive stars that stayed close to their birthplaces, exploding as cavity supernovae within the superbubbles that these clusters created.

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