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North America and the Pelican

By |2022-09-08T14:09:19-04:00September 8th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off [...]

Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb

By |2022-09-07T14:09:35-04:00September 7th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these stars are part of the vast Tarantula Nebula and were captured in two kinds of infrared light by the new Webb [...]

An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China

By |2022-09-06T14:09:11-04:00September 6th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The featured image was taken last month in [...]

Carina Cliffs from the Webb Space Telescope

By |2022-09-05T13:55:08-04:00September 5th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars created these cliffs. Specifically, the destructive winds and energetic light from the stars in the open cluster NGC 3324 eroded away part of a mountain of dark interstellar dust in the northern part of the Carina Nebula. Several of these stars are visible toward the top of this highly [...]

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