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![The Flame Nebula
Also known as NGC 2024, the nebula’s suggestive reddish color is due to the glow of hydrogen atoms at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years away. The hydrogen atoms have been ionized, or stripped of their electrons, and glow as the atoms and electrons recombine.
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The Flame Nebula
Also known as NGC 2024, the nebula’s suggestive reddish color is due to the glow of hydrogen atoms at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years away. The hydrogen atoms have been ionized, or stripped of their electrons, and glow as the atoms and electrons recombine.
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![Infant Stars
Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748. The image graphically illustrates just how these massive stars sculpt their environment by generating powerful winds that alter the shape of the parent gaseous nebula.
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Infant Stars
Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B, also known as NGC 1748. The image graphically illustrates just how these massive stars sculpt their environment by generating powerful winds that alter the shape of the parent gaseous nebula.
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![The Eastern Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula itself is the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. This portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, about the apparent size of the Moon.
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The Eastern Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula itself is the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. This portion of the eastern Veil spans only 1/2 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, about the apparent size of the Moon.
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The Western Veil Nebula
…also known as the Witch’s Broom, is part of a huge supernova remnant that spans more than six moon widths (diameters) across in the night sky.
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![The Omega Nebula |
Image of the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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The Omega Nebula |
Image of the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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![Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox and a solstice.
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Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox and a solstice.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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