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A small part of the emission nebula NGC 6357. It glows with the characteristic red of an H II region.[1]

An Interstellar Cloud is generally an accumulation of gas, plasma, and dust in our and other galaxies. Put differently, an interstellar cloud is a denser-than-average region of the interstellar medium, the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. Depending on the density, size, and temperature of a given cloud, its hydrogen can be neutral, making an H I region; ionized, or plasma making it an H II region; or molecular, which are referred to simply as molecular clouds, or sometime dense clouds. Neutral and ionized clouds are sometimes also called diffuse clouds. An interstellar cloud is formed by the gas and dust particles from a red giant in its later life.

  1. ^ "Carved by Massive Stars". ESO Picture of the Week. European Southern Observatory. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

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