Thanksgiving Swan

25 November 2009 Last Updated on 29 November 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illing­worth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Har­tig (STScI), the ACS Sci­ence Team, and ESA

I can’t share turkey with you today but I can share a deep look by NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope of the Swan Neb­ula. When you’re zoomed out, look for the red part of the image near the left edge. This part of the neb­ula has a turkey look to me. What else can you find as you explore the image?

NASA/JPL–Caltech/Univ. of Wisc.

NASA/JPL–Caltech/Univ. of Wisc.

Also called the Omega Neb­ula, the Horse­shoe Neb­ula, or the Lob­ster Neb­ula, M17 is a region of star for­ma­tion. The neb­ula glows from the light and radi­a­tion of hot, blue stars buried deep in the neb­ula. The watercolor-like image shows ridges of gas and dust; all the ingre­di­ents needed for mak­ing new stars.

M17 is found in the con­stel­la­tion Sagit­tar­ius about 5,500 light-years from Earth.

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