Birth of a Nebula
I can’t get over how kelp forests have the same colors as some nebulae. Ocean and space just go so well together <3
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A Montage of the Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula (known by astronomers as NGC 3372) is sometimes called the Great Nebula in Carina or the Grand Nebula. These images taken by the Hubble space telescope show the magnificent structure within the Carina Nebula. These images contain regions of dense star formation, interstellar winds, massive particle clouds and much more. Many of these structures are hundreds of light-years across and make the size of our solar system look pathetic in comparison. The Carine Nebula is about 10,000 light-years away from earth and is located in the constellation Carina.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula, is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood. It is home to several million young stars; among which live the most massive stars ever seen. The nebula resides 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. No known star-forming region in our galaxy is as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus.
A Cosmic Necklace Larger than a Solar System
The “Necklace Nebula”, also called PN G054.2-03.4, is the exploded aftermath of a giant star that came too close to its Sun-like binary companion. The two stars that produced the Necklace Nebula live in a relatively small orbit about each other. They have a period of 1.2 days and a separation on the order of 5 times the radius of the Sun.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)
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Colorized and Tilt Shifted Pictures of Space, Part 2
Carina Nebula
Rosette Nebula
Heart Nebula
Fairy Pillar Nebula
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Crab Nebula
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The things that keep me up at night.
This is actually super false and misleading. This is a dark nebula known as Barnard 68. It’s a cloud of gas that’s relatively close to us, so it’s between us and most stars.
It’s also only 500 light years away. Also, there would be no way to know if there was or was not dark matter in it. We’re still not sure that dark matter is even a thing.
Plus here’s an infrared picture showing the stars behind it.
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Please do your research before posting false information.
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God I hope so.
This is just super, super misleading and ugh. GATHER ROUND KIDDES ‘CAUSE YA GONNA LEARN SOME SPACE STUFF.
This picture is of the dark nebula known as Barnard 68. It’s a cloud of gas that’s relatively close to us (500 light years away), so it’s between us and most stars. You can’t see the stars behind it because of the density/color of the gas.
Also, there would be no way to know if there was or was not dark matter in it. We’re still not sure that dark matter even EXISTS. Let alone be able to detect it.
Plus here’s an infrared picture showing the stars behind it. In case ya still thought I was lying.
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BUT WAIT. The Eridanus Supervoid could possibly(okay not really) be a thing. The source leads you to a thing called the CMB Cold Spot. Its not nearly as spectacular if you read up on it. Cold spots are pretty common, actually. Also, there’s very little evidence that the cold spot is caused by a supervoid, as a matter of fact its very unlikely. Most believe the CMB cold spot to be an average, insignificant, cold spot in the cosmic radiation map. So basically, the actual supervoid that this post is referencing probably doesn’t even exist, but I digress.
The Hubble Space telescope just sent back a new photo of the Twin Jet Nebula. Here’s what it looked like in 1997:
And now …
Whoa. But wait, we also got an updated image of the merging galaxies NGC 6240. What it looked like in 2008:
And today:
Science, you’re the best. Oh, and the explanation behind those merging galaxies and their black holes is wild.
