Posts Tagged ‘reflection nebula’

Faces in the cloud

03 November 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Faces pop out of the star cloud around IRAS 10082–5647 in this NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image.

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Glowing R-shaped Keyhole

03 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI)

A glow­ing R-shaped key­hole beck­ons in this star-forming region of the galaxy toward the con­stel­la­tion Orion. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope shows the foggy light of the reflec­tion neb­ula NGC 1999.

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Nebular Swirl

09 March 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

A swirl of neb­ula resem­bles an arm and a hand in this image of DG 129 from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer, or WISE.

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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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Keyhole

29 March 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI)

A glow­ing key­hole beck­ons in this star-forming region of the galaxy toward the con­stel­la­tion Orion. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope shows the foggy light of the reflec­tion neb­ula NGC 1999.

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