Tag Archive for 'Nebula'

This image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera shows the Pillars of Creation. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph DePasquale, STScI / Anton M. Koekemoer, STScI / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Takes Close Look at Pillars of Creation

Oct 19, 2022 by News Staff

Protostars are the scene-stealers in this new image of the Pillars of Creation from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA...

This Hubble image shows IRAS 05506+2414, a young stellar object located over 12,000 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Sahai.

Hubble Looks at Very Young Protostar and Its Environment

Sep 19, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of IRAS 05506+2414, an enigmatic stellar object surrounded by a shroud...

This image, taken by the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, shows the Lobster Nebula. Image credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / J. Miller, Gemini Observatory & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani & D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Dark Energy Camera Celebrates Its 10th Birthday with Stunning Photo of Lobster Nebula

Sep 13, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 570-megapixel U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated camera mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at NOIRLab’s...

This image shows dark nebulae Barnard 92 (right) and Barnard 93 (left) in Messier 24. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ team / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

VST Spots Prominent Dark Nebulae in Messier 24

Sep 13, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at Paranal Observatory have captured a detailed image of a spectacular part of a star cloud called...

The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the NIRCam instrument on board the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This is a composite image from several filters that represents emission from ionized gas, hydrocarbons, molecular gas, dust and scattered starlight. Most prominent is the Orion Bar, a wall of dense gas and dust that runs from the top left to the bottom right in this image, and that contains the bright star θ2 Orionis A. The scene is illuminated by a group of hot, young massive stars -- known as the Trapezium Cluster -- that is located just off the top right of the image. The strong and harsh ultraviolet radiation of the Trapezium cluster creates a hot, ionized environment in the upper right, and slowly erodes the Orion Bar away. Molecules and dust can survive longer in the shielded environment offered by the dense Bar, but the surge of stellar energy sculpts a region that displays an incredible richness of filaments, globules, young stars with disks and cavities. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / PDRs4All ERS Team / Salomé Fuenmayor.

Webb Captures Breathtaking Images of Orion Nebula

Sep 12, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have delivered the most detailed images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula. The...

This 340-light-year-wide image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) shows the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Webb ERO Production Team.

Webb Takes Close Look at Tarantula Nebula

Sep 6, 2022 by News Staff

The Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hosts thousands of young and still-forming stars, many revealed...

Zeta Ophiuchi was once in close orbit with another star, before being ejected when this companion was destroyed in a supernova explosion; infrared data from Spitzer reveal a spectacular shock wave (red and green) that was formed by matter blowing away from the star’s surface and slamming into gas in its path; data from Chandra (blue) show a bubble of X-ray emission located around the star, produced by gas that has been heated by the shock wave to tens of millions of degrees. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of Cambridge / Sisk-Reynés et al. / NSF / NRAO / VLA / PanSTARRS.

Chandra Takes New Look at Giant Runaway Star Zeta Ophiuchi

Jul 26, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Zeta Ophiuchi is a very massive, hot, bright blue star that once had a companion that exploded as a supernova. Zeta Ophiuchi was once in close orbit with...

Two cameras aboard Webb captured these images of the Southern Ring Nebula: two stars, which are locked in a tight orbit, shape the local landscape; they are prominent in the image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the left, while the image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the right shows for the first time that the second star is surrounded by dust; the brighter star is in an earlier stage of its stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI.

Webb Reveals New Details in Southern Ring Nebula

Jul 14, 2022 by News Staff

Two cameras aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured new images of the Southern Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula approximately 2,500...

Multi-wavelength image of Westerhout 50 (red - radio, green - optical, yellow - soft X-rays, magenta - medium energy X-rays, cyan - hard X-ray emission). The eastern lobe X-ray image highlights the XMM-Newton data (with the brightening at the edge of the field of view cropped here to highlight the source emission). The western lobe X-ray image shows only partial Chandra coverage of part of the nebula. Image credit: Safi-Harb et al., arXiv: 2207.00573.

Astronomers Find Evidence for Unusual Particle Acceleration in Manatee Nebula

Jul 5, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and its Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have...

This Hubble image shows the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Josh Barrington.

Hubble Spots Glowing Plumes in Tarantula Nebula

Jun 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic...

This composite image shows the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), shows bright stars and light, pinkish clouds of hot gas. The bright red-yellow streaks that have been superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the ALMA, revealing regions of cold, dense gas which have the potential to collapse and form stars. The unique web-like structure of the gas clouds led astronomers to the nebula’s spidery nickname. Image credit: ESO / ALMA / NAOJ / NRAO / Wong et al. / M.-R. Cioni / VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

Astronomers Capture Spectacular Image of Tarantula Nebula

Jun 16, 2022 by News Staff

In a new high-resolution image, we see the Tarantula Nebula — a luminous star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of...

Top left: a giant blue star, much more massive than our Sun, has consumed, through nuclear fusion at its center, all its hydrogen, helium, and heavier elements up to iron. It now has a small iron core (red dot) at its center. Unlike the earlier stages of fusion, the fusion of iron atoms absorbs, rather than releases, energy. The fusion-released energy that has held up the star against its own weight now is gone, and the star will quickly collapse, triggering a supernova explosion. Top right: the collapse has begun, producing a superdense neutron star with a strong magnetic field at its center (inset). The neutron star, though containing about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun, is only about the size of Manhattan. Bottom left: the supernova explosion has ejected a fast-moving shell of debris outward into interstellar space. At this stage, the debris shell is dense enough to shroud from view any radio waves coming from the region of the neutron star. Bottom right: As the shell of explosion debris expands over a few decades, it becomes less dense and eventually becomes thin enough that radio waves from inside can escape. This allowed observations by the VLA Sky Survey to detect bright radio emission created as the rapidly spinning neutron star’s powerful magnetic field sweeps through the surrounding space, accelerating charged particles. This phenomenon is called a pulsar wind nebula. Image credit: Melissa Weiss, NRAO / AUI / NSF.

Astronomers Spot Pulsar Wind Nebula in Distant Dwarf Galaxy

Jun 15, 2022 by News Staff

A pulsar wind nebula is created when the powerful magnetic field of a rapidly spinning neutron star accelerates surrounding charged particles to nearly...

This Hubble image of Chamaeleon Cloud I is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the VISTA InfraRed CAMera (VIRCAM) on ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). Image credit: NASA / ESA / K. Luhman & T. Esplin, Pennsylvania State University / ESO / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Hubble Looks at Beautiful Star-Forming Cloud

Feb 4, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the Chamaeleon Cloud I, part of a large star-forming region called the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex. This...

This Spitzer image shows the star-forming region NGC 2174. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Spitzer Sees Infant Stars in NGC 2174

Jan 14, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced an outstanding infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. This Spitzer image...

The Flame Nebula is the large feature on the left half of the central, yellow rectangle. The smaller feature on the right is the reflection nebula NGC 2023. To the top right of NGC 2023, the iconic Horsehead Nebula seems to emerge heroically from the ‘flames.’ The three objects are part of the Orion cloud, a giant gas structure located between 1,300 and 1,600 light-years away. The different colors indicate the velocity of the gas. The Flame Nebula and its surroundings are moving away from us, with the red clouds in the background receding faster than the yellow ones in the foreground. Image credit: ESO / Thomas Stanke / J. Emerson / VISTA / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

Radio Astronomers Take Close Look at Flame Nebula

Jan 5, 2022 by News Staff

Using the recently-installed SuperCam instrument on ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert, Chile, astronomers have produced...

This image shows the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula, which is located near the center of the even larger Chamaeleon I dark cloud. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / J. Miller, Gemini Observatory & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab / D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula Captured by Gemini South Telescope

Dec 9, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South telescope have imaged the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula, which is located near...

This Hubble image shows NGC 6891, a planetary nebula located 11,784 light-years away in the constellation of Delphinus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Hajian, University of Waterloo / H. Bond, Pennsylvania State University / B. Balick, University of Washington / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Spots Beautiful Planetary Nebula: NGC 6891

Nov 30, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a planetary nebula called NGC 6891. This Hubble image shows...

This Hubble image shows the Herbig-Haro object HH 45 in the reflection nebula NGC 1977. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Bally, University of Colorado at Boulder / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Spots Herbig-Haro Object in NGC 1977

Nov 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed HH 45, a Herbig-Haro object embedded in the nebula NGC 1977. This Hubble image shows...

Hubble captured a bright jet (orange object at the bottom center of the image) from the protostar Parengo 2042 in this image of NGC 1977. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / J. Bally, University of Colorado at Boulder / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Captures Bright Protostellar Jet in NGC 1977

Nov 25, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The bright stellar jet is being emitted by Parengo 2042, a protostar that resides within the reflection nebula NGC 1977. Hubble captured a bright jet (orange...

This Hubble image shows a part of the Flame Nebula, a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / K. Stapelfeldt, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Looks for Protoplanetary Objects in Flame Nebula

Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted several ‘proplyds’ and ‘globulettes’ in the Flame Nebula. This Hubble image...

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