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A starfield is dominated by light brown dust. In the middle is a parabolic gas cloud opening toward the lower right. A bright star is near the center at the apex of the parabolic gas cloud. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
星空主要由浅棕色尘埃组成。中间是向右下方张开的抛物线气体云。抛物线气体云顶点中心附近有一颗明亮的恒星。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
2023年9月19日 HH 211: Jets from a Forming Star Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: Tom Ray (DIAS Dublin) Explanation: Do stars always create jets as they form? No one is sure. As a gas cloud gravitationally contracts, it forms a disk that can spin too fast to continue contracting into a protostar
2023年7月28日 Young Stars, Stellar Jets Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Explanation: High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of actively forming young stars shine in infrared light, revealing themselves in this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescop
2022年1月27日 South of Orion Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander Explanation: South of the large star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula, lies bright blue reflection nebula NGC 1999. At the edge of the Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years distant, NGC 1999’s illumin
2020 May 25 Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an inanimate series of pillars of gas and dust, me
Chamaeleon II Dark Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman Explanation: A small constellation hiding near the south celestial pole, The Chamaeleon boasts no bright stars. Stars are forming within its constellation boundaries though, in a complex of dark, dusty molecular clouds. Some 500 ligh
