Posts Tagged ‘reflection nebula’
The Witch Head
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L.Rebull (SSC/Caltech)
This cosmic witch is brewing up baby stars. The Witch Head Nebula is a reflection nebula about 1,000 light-years from Earth. It reflects the light of the bright star Rigel in the constellation of Orion, the Hunter. The new stars show up as pink dots in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer explores the universe in infrared, showing scientists warm bodies in space, such as stars and even planets. Explore the image and find the pink stars. Why do you think they are bunched together?
Ghostly Reflections
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Eerie, wispy clouds show near the star Merope in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. And to me the nebula resembles a ghostly bat.
Starman
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. A. Gutermuth (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Head glowing red, with crazy hair, I see a starman floating in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This reflection nebula is actually NGC 1333. Through the dusty cloud, a dense group of stars are being formed. The young stars in NGC 1333 are not one large cluster but two separate clusters. One in the red area and another in the denser parts of the nebula shown in green and yellow.
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