Frank C Giorgio
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Butterfly Nebula (aka NGC 6302, Bug Nebula, or Caldwell 69)
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Butterfly Nebula (aka NGC 6302, Bug Nebula, or Caldwell 69)
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November 12, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Pink sea this looks nice
December 10, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Pink sea this looks nice
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Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) by nasa
![Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region.
This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.
Radiation from hot, young stars [located beyond the top of the image] has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years. Ultraviolet light heats the edges of the dark cloud, releasing gas into the relatively empty region of surrounding space. There, additional ultraviolet radiation causes the hydrogen gas to glow, which produces the red halo of light seen around the pillar. A similar process occurs on a much smaller scale to gas surrounding a single star, forming the bow-shaped arc seen near the upper left side of the Cone. This arc, seen previously with the Hubble telescope, is 65 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. The blue-white light from surrounding stars is reflected by dust. Background stars can be seen peeking through the evaporating tendrils of gas, while the turbulent base is pockmarked with stars reddened by dust.
Over time, only the densest regions of the Cone will be left. Inside these regions, stars and planets may form.
The Cone Nebula is a cousin of the M16 pillars, which the Hubble telescope imaged in 1995. Monstrous pillars of cold gas, like the Cone and M16, are common in large regions of star birth. Astronomers believe that these pillars are incubators for developing stars.
Credits
NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dvzucmvxelqr6w37suuha4wa/bafkreighr5x4gh5r2znzdamtqh6mcavrpccvyfkdxggulcsmdaglqbdkla@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) by nasa
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The sunset 🌅❤️❤️❤️
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
The sunset 🌅❤️❤️❤️
Best daily prayer 🤲
December 10, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Best daily prayer 🤲
This is beautiful 😻
December 10, 2024 at 9:47 PM
This is beautiful 😻
Always praying 🙏
December 10, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Always praying 🙏
Guess what I was looking at 😂
December 10, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Guess what I was looking at 😂
Nice places to visit
December 10, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Nice places to visit
Put a smile on your face always
December 10, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Put a smile on your face always
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this is probably one of my favorite hubble images of all time 🌌
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
this is probably one of my favorite hubble images of all time 🌌
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