A Tour of NGC 1333

In my January 2020 issue of Astronomy Magazine there is a detailed segment titled Inside the Perseus Molecular Cloud...and I found it quite fascinating and thought it would make a great Space/Astronomy post... So, here it is... Please note that I have only included the NGC 1333 and the IC 348 is not included on this video...

"The Perseus molecular cloud (Per MCld) is a nearby (~1000 ly) giant molecular cloud in the constellation of Perseus and contains over 10,000 solar masses of gas and dust covering an area of 6 by 2 degrees. Unlike the Orion molecular cloud it is almost invisible apart from two clusters, IC 348 and NGC 1333, where low-mass stars are formed. It is very bright at mid and far-infrared wavelengths and in the submillimeter originating in dust heated by the newly formed low-mass stars.

It shows a curious ring structure in maps made by the IRAS and MSX satellites and the Spitzer Space Telescope and has recently detected by the COSMOSOMAS at microwave frequencies as a source of anomalous "spinning dust" emission." Read more information at Wikipedia.com