鬼魂星魂

2020年10月26日

Reflections of the Ghost Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Bogdan Jarzyna

Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen at toward the bottom of the featured image. Within the reflection nebula are the telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.

Tomorrow’s picture: venusian volcano

鬼魂星魂
影像提供与版权: Bogdan Jarzyna

说明: 在这片恒星和尘埃里，有没有天体能吸住你的目光？这片广袤、满是在反射淡淡星光云气的星云，漂流在仙王座方向的夜空中。这些远在地球外头的星云，位在银河盘面的仙王座火焰分子云复合体的边缘，离我们大约有1,200光年远。位在这张主题影像底端，长超过2光年，比其他幽灵状云气明亮的的云气，则是vdB 141（亦称Sh2-136、鬼魂星云或幽云星云）。在这团反射星云之内的致密云核，展现出处在恒星形成阶段的初期，正在发生塌缩的诸多特征迹证。

明日的图片: venusian volcano