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The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty Image Credit & Copyright : Herbert Walter, CEDIC Team Explanation : This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region ..

우주 2020. 6. 13. 05:00

NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Credit : A. Nota (ESA/STScI) et al., ESA, NASA Explanation : How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope. A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wond..

우주 2020. 6. 9. 00:10

The Tarantula Nebula Image Credit & Copyright : Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory) Explanation : The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. About 180 thousand light-years away, it's the largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local G..

우주 2020. 6. 8. 22:36

The Large Cloud of Magellan Image Credit & Copyright : Alessandro Cipolat Bares Explanation : The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible to southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan, now underst..

우주 2020. 6. 7. 21:06

Hubble's Cosmic Reef Image Credit : NASA, ESA, STScI Explanation : These bright ridges of interstellar gas and dust are bathed in energetic starlight. With its sea of young stars, the massive star-forming region NGC 2014 has been dubbed the Cosmic Reef. Drifting just off shore, the smaller NGC 2020, is an expansive blue-hued structure erupting from a single central Wolf-Rayet star, 200,000 times..

우주 2020. 6. 7. 20:45

Comet Clark is near the Edge Image Credit & Copyright : Raul Villaverde Fraile  Explanation : Sweeping through this stunning field of view, Comet 71P/Clark really is in the foreground of these cosmic clouds. The 2 panel telescopic mosaic is color enhanced and is about 5 degrees (10 full moons) across. It captures the faint comet's position on the night of May 23/24 over 5 light-minutes from Eart..

우주 2020. 6. 5. 23:40

The Tulip and Cygnus X-1 Image Credit & Copyright : Ivan Eder Explanation : Framing a bright emission region, this telescopic view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the nebula rich constellation Cygnus the Swan. Popularly called the Tulip Nebula, the reddish glowing cloud of interstellar gas and dust is also found in the 1959 catalog by astronomer Stewart Sharpless as Sh2-..

우주 2020. 6. 5. 18:05

The Crab from Space Image Credit : NASA – X-ray : CXC, Optical : STSCI, Infrared : JPL-Caltech, Explanation : The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, expanding debris from the death explosion of a massive star. This intriguing false-color image combines data fro..

우주 2020. 6. 4. 22:52