Annual Report 1997 
Max-Planck-Institut
für Astronomie
Heidelberg-Königstuhl

I   Contents

II   Highlights

III   Development of Instruments

IV   Scientific Studies

Staff, Publications, etc.



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Cover Picture:

A newborn star (cross), deeply embedded into the dusty molecular cloud out of which it was born. It is not visible in the optical range, but can be observed only in the infrared light. It emits a bright, ionized gaseous jet in polar direction, illuminates an extended reflection nebulosity, and excites the line emission of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 28 and HH 29. See page 23–29.