This beautiful cosmic rosebud shows the infrared emissions being generated by a group of young stars (the blue dots to the right of image center) only a few million years old emerging from the cloud they used as their stellar nursery. The red glow (resembling the petals of a rose) is the heated dust that remains behind.
NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has been slowly scanning the cosmos, picking out objects that are invisible to optical telescopes. This time, WISE has captured this star-forming region in its lens: the Berkeley 59 cluster in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 3,300 light-years from Earth.
