Sagittarius B

FORCAST image of the galactic center next to the same area showingi onized carbon intensity contours of the Sagittarius B region

Left: An image of the Sagittarius B region in the galactic center taken by SOFIA’s FORCAST instrument, combined with images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory of the European Space Agency. Right: Ionized carbon intensity contours of the Sagittarius B region. The striped pattern is a scanning artifact due to the motion of the telescope. In both panels, crosses indicate the locations of the three star-forming cores of Sagittarius B2. Credit: Left: NASA/SOFIA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Herschel; Right: Harris et al., 2021