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A starfield is shown with a unusual textured nebula in the center colored in brown with blue trimmings. Diffuse red nebula appear around the edges. In the center is an opaque brown object. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
星空中央有一个质地不寻常的星云，呈棕色，蓝色镶边。边缘出现弥漫的红色星云。中央是一个不透明的棕色天体。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
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2023年5月18日 WR 134 Ring Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks Explanation: Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view about the size of the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen gas. ...
2023年3月18日 Wolf-Rayet 124 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team Explanation: Driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared view. The eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of stellar images made with the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the James ...
2022年12月20日 Thor’s Helmet Image Credit & Copyright: Hannah Rochford Explanation: Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor’s Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In ...
2020 March 8 Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times m...
2020 March 2 Sharpless-308: The Dolphin Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Chilesope 2, Pleaides Astrophotography Team (Peking U.) Explanation: Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is much larger than the dolphin it appears to be. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Bi...