鬼魂星魂

2023年10月30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 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.

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鬼魂星魂
影像提供与版权: Bogdan Jarzyna

说明: 在这片恒星和尘埃里，有没有天体马上抓住你的目光？这些广袤、宝石般、内有不停反射暗淡星光云气的星云，漂流在仙王座方向的夜空中。这些座落在地球外头约1,200光年远处的星云，位于银河盘面的仙王火焰分子云复合体的边缘。在这张主题影像底部，长超过2光年，比其他幽灵状云气要明亮的的怪物般云气，则是VdB 141（亦称Sh2-136、鬼魂星云或幽云星云）。在这团反射星云里的致密云核，已展现出处在恒星形成阶段的早期、正在发生塌缩的诸多特征迹证。