A Cool Nebula

in science •  7 years ago 

This is a picture of a nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope




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This nebula is right outside the star cluster NGC 2074, which is about 170,000 light years away. This is an active area of star formation, most likely started by a supernova. This picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space telescope can sense light from infrared to ultraviolet. This gives it the ability to study a wide range of objects. Dust clouds, Nebula for example, often glow in infrared. On the other hand, ultraviolet goes through dust clouds, allowing the hubble to see greater distances.[1][2]

Supernova and star formation are often linked. Star formation starts with gas clouds. These gas clouds eventually start collapsing. A supernova compresses the gas, forcing it into gravitational collapse. Normally the particles have to cool down a lot before gravity is enough to make them collapse. [3]




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I use this one as my background i love these kind of pictures would love to see like an album of these.

greatttt
looks like painting
marvelous
upvoted dear

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And in every single illuminated light you have seen out there has its own life form expanding its reach and growing. Sooner we will meet them.

uhhhh there probably isn't life around every star.

thing about these pics is all the colors are photo-shopped. it's more art than reality imo

can you fuck off

"photo-shopped"

its because the majority are taken in colours we can't actually see.

flat earthers are not welcome here