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Caption: Figure 1.
VPHAS g-band image of M17, overlaid with 850 μm dust continuum contours (in levels 0.3, 0.6, 1.8, 3.6, 6.0, 9.0, 1.26, and 1.68 Jy beam−1) from JCMT-SCUBA2. The optically bright nebula in M17 is labeled as the M17 H II region, while the northern and southwestern clouds are labeled as M17 North and M17 SW, respectively.
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