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The middle image shows a view of the Horsehead Nebula in near-infrared light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. The image on the right features a new view of the Horsehead Nebula from ...
As it is included in the New General Catalogue, this object has been known since at least 1888. [9] The earliest-known study of NGC 6302 is by Edward Emerson Barnard, who drew and described it in 1907. [2] The nebula featured in some of the first images released after the final servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2009. [10]
Ionisation in the nebula is dominated by Sk 183, an extremely hot O3 main sequence star visible as the bright isolated star at the centre of the Hubble image. [ 11 ] A number of other, more distant galaxies also appear in the background of the Hubble Space Telescope images of NGC 602, making for a "tantalizing" [ 12 ] and "grand" [ 13 ] view.
The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
NGC 3132 (also known as the Eight-Burst Nebula, [2] the Southern Ring Nebula, [2] or Caldwell 74) is a bright and extensively studied planetary nebula in the constellation Vela. Its distance from Earth is estimated at 613 pc or 2,000 light-years .
NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula) is an H II [1] emission nebula located in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175. [1] It was discovered on 6 February 1877 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan . [ 2 ]
NGC 6357 is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by dark discs of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding "cocoons" or expanding gases surrounding these small stars. It is also known as the Lobster Nebula.
English: What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.