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2024年2月9日 When Roses Aren’t Red Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease (Denver Astronomical Society) Explanation: Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty. Likewise, the beautiful Rosette Nebula and other star forming regions are often shown in astronomical images with a predominately red hue, in part because the dominant e...
2022年1月20日 NGC 7822 in Cepheus Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Carter Explanation: Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and dark sh...
2020年9月4日 The Wizard Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew Klinger Explanation: Open star cluster NGC 7380 is still embedded in its natal cloud of interstellar gas and dust popularly known as the Wizard Nebula. Seen on the left, with foreground and background stars along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy it lies some 8,000 light-years distant, toward ...