Tag Archive for 'Coalsack Nebula'

This Hubble image shows a small part of Caldwell 99, a dark nebula located 600 light-years away in the southern constellation of Crux. Image credit: NASA / ESA / R. Sahai, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Spots Beautiful Protoplanetary Nebula in Caldwell 99

Feb 11, 2021 by News Staff

NASA has released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a small region on the edge of the dark nebula Caldwell 99. This Hubble image...

This image shows part of the Coalsack Nebula, an opaque interstellar dust cloud that obscures the light of the background Milky Way stars; dust grains in the cloud redden the starlight that reaches us by absorbing blue light preferentially. Image credit: ESO.

ESO Astronomers Zoom in on Mysterious Coalsack Nebula

Oct 14, 2015 by News Staff

This image from the Wide Field Imager, a camera installed on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows part of the huge...