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| What a nebula? | [Fast reading of the page] Of the Latin ' nebula ' which wants to say cloud, clouds of gas and dusts in the middle of stars, nebulas are at the same moment active crèches and cemeteries of stars. These magnificence of the sky are enlightened by the stars which they contain or by stars situated behind them. It is the most beautiful images of astronomy that we can obtain at present. | |||
| From Latin ' nebula ' which wants to say cloud, clouds of gas and dusts in the middle of stars, nebulas are at the same moment active crèches and cemeteries of stars. These magnificence of the sky are enlightened by the stars which they contain or by stars situated behind them. It is the most beautiful images of astronomy that we can obtain at present. Nebulas make us admire in the field of the telescope of magnificent conglomerations of stars and gas flooding the sky. More the telescope is powerful more the images are magnificent. Only long poses will reveal the whole palette of colors in particular the surprising pink color of the hydrogen. William Hershel discovered the dark nebulas, the clouds of gas and dusts without star, too dense to allow to pass the light of stars situated behind. | Notes: ESA (European Space Agency) European Southern Observatory (ESO, the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. NGC (New General Catalog) is one of the best known catalogs in the field of amateur astronomy with the Messier catalog.
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Nebula N81 | category : nebulas | |||
N 81 is a cloud of reddening gas, which shelters from young and brilliant stud. | The small Cloud of Magellan (PNM), named according to the name of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, is in 200 000 light years and is visible only since the southern hemisphere of the Earth. N 81 is the 81st nebula cataloged in a study on the PNM driven by the astronomer Karl Henize in 1950, which afterward stole in the Space shuttle at time that astronaut. The presented image is a color representation of data obtained in September, 1997 with the camera WFPC2 of Hubble.
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Nebula of the Tarantula or NGC 2070 | category : nebulas | |||
| The Nebula of the Tarantula is a gigantic factory of manufacturing of stars. It is the biggest nebula of known emission. Placed at a distance 170 000 light years, she can be observed in the constellation of the Sea bream in the southern sky. It belongs to one of the nearby galaxies of the Milky Way, the Big Cloud of Magellan. The Nebula of the Tarantula contains more than half a million times the mass of the Sun, this vast and blazing cloud welcomes some of the most massive known stars. The nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its most brilliant sectors which look like in a sense the legs of a spider. They extend since a central "body" where a heap of warm stars (conscript R136) illuminates and structures the nebula. This name of one of the biggest spiders ground, was chosen because of the colossal proportions of the nebula indeed, it measures almost 1000 light years of wide and extends over more than a third of degree, is approximately the size of the full moon. | If it was situated in our own galaxy, at the distance of another stellar nursery, the Nebula of Orion (distant from only 1500 light years), it would cover a quarter of the sky and would be visible even in broad daylight. The astronomers realized this mosaic of four images to obtain a sight covering a square degree. Every individual image containing 64 million pixels, the resultant mosaic contains 256 million pixels. The image is based on data collected through four filters, among which two which draw the hydrogen (in red) and the oxygen (in green). The ascendancy of the green in the image of the Tarantula results from the presence of the youngest and the warmest stars in this region.
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Nebula of the butterfly or NGC 2346 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula is situated in the approximately 2000 years light of the Earth in the direction of the constellation of the Unicorn. | The spatial telescope Hubble arrested this image of the nebula in shape "of wing of butterfly", NGC 2346.
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Nebula of the Head of horse or Barnard 33 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula of the Head of Horse (officially known under the name of Barnard 33; IC434 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Orion. | This last one absorbs strongly the visible radiation emitted by the gas ionized by back plan (red on the photo). On the base of the head, we find young stars in the process of formation.
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Nebula Eta Carinae or NGC 3372 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula of the Hull is cataloged under the reference NGC 3372, it covers approximately three degrees of the sky at the distance of 8800 years light, what corresponds to a diameter of 460 years light. | The nebula of the Hull is a huge nebula situated in the Arm of the Sagittarius of our Galaxy. Although situated far from us, it is rather brilliant to be seen to the naked eye (but only since the southern hemisphere). | |||
Nebula of the horseshoe or M17 | category : nebulas | |||
M17 is a nebula in emission discovered by Cheseaux in 1746 then rediscovered by Messier in 1764 situated in the Sagittarius. Also known under the names of nebula Omega, the Swan, the Horseshoe, or the Lobster, this very brilliant nebula, about the pinkish colors, is visible in the bare eye under the low latitudes (magnitude is similar 6). This is of for the fact that it shelters young stars arisen from the nebula and which irradiate the gas surrounding, so creating a region HII We call regions HII, nebulas to emission constituted by clouds mainly consisted of hydrogen and with which most of the atoms are ionized, and sometimes extending over several light years. The ionization is produced by the nearness of one or several very warm stars, spectral type O or B, which shine strongly in the extreme ultraviolet ray, so ionizing the gas surrounding, from which these stars originally formed. , a red color of the nebula is moreover that some ionized hydrogen. In infrared, we were able to observe an important quantity of dusts, favorable to the formations of stars there. | M17 is situated in 5500 years light of our solar system. M16 and M17 would be in the same spiral arm of the Milky Way (the arm of the Sagittarius or Sagittarius-hull) and are maybe a part of the same complex giant of clouds of interstellar matter.
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Nebula of pleiads or M45 | category : nebulas | |||
Pleiads, or heap M45, are a heap opened by stars which observes in the north hemisphere, in the constellation of the Taurus. |
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Nebula of the eagle or M16 | category : nebulas | |||
| The spatial telescope very often photographed the nebula of the Eagle. Already the image acquired in 1995 showed very fine details inside its pillars of gas, real stellar crèches. By far, that looks like an eagle. A more attentive examination of the Nebula of the Eagle, the watch than brilliant region is really a window in the center of a bigger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a very floodlit studio appears there where a whole heap opened by stars is forming. In this cavity, high pillars and the round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas live there where stars continue to form. Several young blue brilliant stars are already visible. Their light and their winds blow the remaining strands as well as the walls of gas and dust. The nebula by emission of the Eagle, labeled M 26, is situated in approximately 6500 light years of the Earth, covers approximately 20 light years and is visible with binoculars in the direction of the constellation of the Snake. |
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Nebula of the Lyre or M57 | category : nebulas | |||
M57 is among objects the most known for the catalog Messier. | A star is always in the center. At the end of life, when they exhausted their hydrogen, stars see their peripheral layers dilating and cooling, whereas the heart collapses and warms up to reach the melting point of the helium. Certain stars go as far as ejecting their peripheral layers creating an expanding cocoon. The heart put in nude is a star of type W or O which shines a lot of ultraviolet light and which incites the nebula.
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Nebula Dumbbell or M57 | category : nebulas | |||
In 1764, the French astronomer Charles Messier described this magnificent cloud cosmic as an oval nebula without star. | The central star (at the origin of the nebula) has a visible magnitude of 13,5, what makes it with difficulty observable for an amateur astronomer. It is a dwarf white with very warm blue color (85 000K). It is accompanied with another stud, even weaker (magnitude 17).
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Nebula of the Cone or NGC 2264 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula of the Cone or the Christmas tree looks like a creature of nightmare, it is really a heap of gas and dusts, situated in 2500 light years of us in the Constellation of the Unicorn. |
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| Nebula of Orion or M42 or NGC 1976 | category : nebulas | |||
| The nebula of Orion presents to the telescope one of the most beautiful spectacles of the sky. In the heart of the nebula, four blue stars, forming a trapeze, illuminate a great distance away the matter scattered in the space. Atoms absorb the stellar light and re-emit it according to their appropriate colors, those some oxygen that is in the green, the hydrogen and the nitrogen in the red. The observations radio astronomical reveal us that the nebula of Orion is only a tiny part of the big opaque cloud of Orion. Of the contraction of this cloud were born the stars of the Trapeze, as well as a group of primal stellar nebulas was situated behind the nebula of Orion. The nebula of Orion was discovered in 1610 by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc who was apparently the first one to notice his misty aspect although Ptolémée, Tycho Brahé and Johann Bayer identified the stars of his center as an only big star and Galilee had detected certain number of small stars when he observed this region with his astronomical telescope. | ||||
nebulas M42, M43 et NGC 1977 | category : nebulas | |||
| In the famous Orion Nebula M42, there is also the nebula NGC 1977 in blue on the image next to M42 in red, the color of hydrogen. In NGC 1977 there are also 2 small nebula NGC 1973 and NGC 1975 barely visible on the image. The blue stars to the left of the image are in the nebula NGC 1981. The small nebula M43 at the bottom left of M42 in red too. The big blue dot shining below the Great Red Spot, right of the image is the nebula NGC 1980 These nebulae are only a small part of the richness of interstellar objects in the region of Orion. The Orion nebula is located at a distance of 1 500 light years from Earth. The width of that heavenly view represents about 45 light years away | credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas | |||
| Nebula of north America or NGC 7000 | category : nebulas | |||
| The nebula NGC 7000 or the nebula of North America is a nebula of enormous emission (3x2.3 degree. NGC 7000 is visible in the bare eye in the Milky Way, in 3 degrees east of Deneb in the constellation of the Swan. By a long photographic exposure, this nebula looks like the outline of the continent of North America, with a particularly good replica of the Gulf of Mexico. Its red light is due to the gas of warmed hydrogen. Several other nebulas (IC 5070, IC 5068) are nearby of NGC 7000. NGC 7000 is a chaotic complex within which get involved and become confused, dark veils of absorbent matter and vast stellar clouds were incited by an extremely warm blue star of the name of HD 199579. |
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| Nebula lagoon or NGC 6523 or M8 | category : nebulas | |||
| Brilliant Misty of the Lagoon is a magnificent, easily visible object in the bare eye as a big foggy task situated at a distance considered in 5000 years light. M8 is a very big nebula with brilliant emission with an incorporated opened group. This group of young stars warms the gas of the nebula, it causes a emission of light. Seen through binoculars the way sinks which divides the brilliant regions of the nebula, looks like a lagoon where from the name of this object. With a small telescope we begin to perceive the complex folds of this nebula and the dark regions among more brilliant sectors. The dark parts of the nebula are the dense clouds of gas and dusts which are a nursery of stars. To the naked eye, the light of the heap is dominated by a red global light which is provoked by the brilliant gaseous hydrogen, whereas dark strands result from the absorption by dense bands of dust. | The image opposite, taken by the telescope Curtis-Schmidt, show the nebula in emission in three precise colors emitted specifically by the hydrogen, the oxygen and the sulfur. The Nebula of the Lagoon is situated in approximately 5000 light years of the Earth in the constellation of the Sagittarius. The nebula covers a region furthermore with three times the diameter of the Full moon.
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Nebula NGC 1893 or IC 410 | category : nebulas | |||
| Magnificent rose of the heavens of the north hemisphere, the nebula by emission IC 410 or NGC 1893 is in about 12 000 light years of us in the constellation of the Coachman. Brilliant cloud of hydrogen measures more than 100 light years of length. It was sculptured by the stellar winds and the radiations emitted since the heap opened by stars NGC 1893 nested within it. Formed in the interstellar cloud there is hardly 4 million years, the brilliant stud with the heap are visible just below the vast dark cloud of dust close to the center of the image. Within 7 hours of this sight with big field detailed well, we notice two relatively dense currents of matter seeming to pass by central regions of the nebula. Possible places of formation of stars, these cosmic tadpoles measure about 10 light years of length. |
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Nebula Trifide or M20 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula Trifide is brilliant misty circular one situated in the Sagittarius, rich in stars. It is at the same moment a nebula with emission and with reflection. |
This spectacular sight wrongly colored is taken by the Telescope Spatial Spitzer. The astronomers used the infrared images Spitzer to consider embryonic stars hidden in the native dust of this schemer stellar crèche. This image shows the nebula divided into three dark parts, darkening zones of dust which reveal strands of gas as well as births of brilliant stars. | |||
Nebula Helix or NGC 7293 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula of the Helix is a cosmic star often photographed by the amateur astronomers for its lively colors and its resemblance with a gigantic eye. The nebula discovered to 18th century, is situated in approximately 650 light years in the constellation of the Aquarius and belongs to a class of called objects misty global. | The brilliant red circle situated in the center is the light of a disk of dust surrounding the white dwarfish star. All the internal planets of the system were carbonized or vaporized whereas the volume of the dying star increased.
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Nebula of the eye of cat or NGC 6543 | category : nebulas | |||
The nebula of the eye of cat (NGC 6543 or of cat eye nebula) with a diameter of 20 seconds of bow, is situated in the north pole of the ecliptic, this very brilliant global nebula, is situated in the constellation of the Dragon. |
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Nebula of the red square or MWC 922 | category : nebulas | |||
Situated about 5000 light years in the constellation of Ophiucus, still called Secretary bird, MWC 922 indeed shows a stunning symmetric structure in the form of square, when she is observed with the telescope of the Mountain Palomar and that of Keck. |
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Nebula NGC 3603 | category : nebulas | |||
The huge nebula NGC 3603 accommodates within it, thousands of young glittering stars. This magnificent stellar panorama is one of the most massive heap of young stars of the Milky Way. NGC 3603 is an active nursery of formation of stars situated in the arm of the Hull of our Galaxy, in approximately 20 000 light years of our Solar system. | They emit ultraviolet radiations and violent winds which dig sorts of cavities in the gas and the dust which surround them The nebula NGC 3603 was discovered by John Herschel in 1834. The image covers approximately 17 light years and was realized on December 29th, 2005 with the instrument ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys).
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Sharpless 171 | category : nebulas | |||
Sharpless 171 is a nebula, of dusts and dense and cold gas, which accommodates within it, thousands of young glittering stars. | This heavenly landscape shows us the diffuse emission some atomic gas thanks to the use of a filter to narrow band and to a subtle coding of colors.
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The universe is all worked up |
| Astronomy - october 15th 2007 | |