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ancientxdelirium:

20110328 Cone Nebula in Ha by JMelquist on Flickr.

evymar:

i just love it

spacew:

NGC 7380 | The Wizard Nebula

(photo credit: Chuck Manges)

astronemma:

Star-Forming Region in the Tarantula Nebula

Image credit: NASA, ESA

astronemma:

‘Cat’s Paw Nebula’ Bursting with New Star Growth

A nebula that shines about 5,500 light-years from Earth could be going through a “baby boom,” according to a new study.

NGC 6334 (the Cat’s Paw Nebula) might be one of the most productive star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The nebula is home to tens of thousands of newly formed stars and plays host to about 200,000 suns’ worth of star-creating material.

“NGC 6334 is forming stars at a more rapid pace than Orion — so rapidly that it appears to be undergoing what might be called a burst of star formation,” the study’s lead author Sarah Willis of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and Iowa State University said in a statement. “It might resemble a ‘mini-starburst,’ similar to a scaled-down version of the spectacular bursts sometimes seen in other galaxies.”

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Image: NGC 6334 in false colour. Red represents the Herschel 70 micron IR image, green represents the IRAC 8 micron image and blue represents the NEWFIRM 1 micron J band. The region is about 70 light years wide. CREDIT: S. Willis (CfA+ISU); ESA/Herschel; NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Spitzer; CTIO/NOAO/AURA/NSF. 

eneasdesigner:

“explosion in the sky” by myself

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