Posts Tagged ‘emission nebula’

Wads of Gum

11 April 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Sur­vey 2

Wads of neb­ula abound in the area sur­round­ing the star-forming region known as Gum 19 in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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WISE Mantis

13 December 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

A green man­tis rises from this cloud of glow­ing gas in an image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer.

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Intense Flames

15 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA.

What looks like a flame, or a cos­mic jel­ly­fish, is seen shoot­ing out of the rich star-forming region of the Flame Neb­ula. Also known as NGC 2024, the Flame Neb­ula shows a bright group of stars light­ing up the region with the core com­pletely hid­den behind a pil­lar of dust. Intense ultra­vi­o­let light and strong winds come from bright, new stars deep in the heart of the Flame Neb­ula. The ultra­vi­o­let light excites atoms inside the neb­ula caus­ing it to glow. Usu­ally we see great images like this from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. This image comes to us from the giant, 4.1-meter VISTA tele­scope, the world’s largest sur­vey tele­scope.

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North America

13 October 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

Credit: Davide De Mar­tin (ESA/Hub­ble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Pho­to­shop FITS Lib­er­a­tor & Dig­i­tized Sky Sur­vey 2

It’s a famil­iar shape but the loca­tion is out of this world. To astronomers gaz­ing at NGC 7000 through earth-bound tele­scopes, this emis­sion neb­ula resem­bled North Amer­ica. Can you find Florida? The Gulf of Mex­ico. To the right of the neb­ula is the fainter Pel­i­can Neb­ula. Divid­ing the two neb­ula is a dark, thick cloud of dust. Stars within the cloud, hid­den from astronomers, cause hydro­gen gas to glow red and pink. Share the crit­ters and shapes you find in the nebula.

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Swimming Frog

08 September 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Call it a galac­tic dust bunny. Or a frog swim­ming in a bright, pink pond.

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