During a free-fall collapse, a molecular cloud contracts, fragmenting into pieces. Each fragment collapses further at a temperature of ~176 K. Find the wavelength in nanometers at which the cloud will emit blackbody radiation most intensely

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de Broglie Equation

The sketch of matter waves is drawn below: