Nebulae, Clusters, and Galaxies
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The most detailed image of the Carina Nebula. — with Diosa De Un Dios, Dedy Saputra, Ram Phuyal, L Darnell Marshall, Nurgün Ceritoğlu, Abdallah Hamdouli-lah, Daniel Bolin, Satyendra Gogoi, Brandie Maso-Chism, Carol Roberts, Debra Abrams Watson, Sabine Hirosaki, Nurgun Arin, Adam Key, Linda Chivall-Robinson and Tracy-roy Evans.(For our new fans, Nebula are often formed from the gravitational collapse of gas in space or when a star used up its nuclear fuel as it reaches the end of its lifespan, and explodes into a supernova. Nebulae are often the remnants of supernovae.) The photo revealed previously hidden features to this magnificent molecular cloud. The European telescop... e peered behind thick clouds of dust and found dusty incubators from which new massive stars are forming. It turns out that this nebula is a stellar nursery to several of the brightest and most massive known stellar giants. One of its massive stars is Eta Carinae, a mysterious and highly unstable star, which was also known as the second brightest star in the night sky for several years. See MoreThis new panorama of the Carina nebula has been placed together from hundreds of individual images, creating the most detailed infrared mosaic of the nebula ever taken. -Ney Avi The photo has been taken by The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). For more info, follow the link below: http://www.space.com/ |