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Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula

By |2024-11-18T08:09:10-05:00November 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as [...]

NGC 602: Stars Versus Pillars from Webb

By |2024-10-29T09:09:10-04:00October 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The stars are destroying the pillars. More specifically, some of the newly formed stars in the image center are emitting light so energetic that is evaporating the gas and dust in the surrounding pillars. Simultaneously, the pillars themselves are still trying to form new stars. The whole setting is the [...]

Colorful Stars and Clouds near Rho Ophiuchi

By |2024-06-11T09:09:44-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so colorful, yet dusty? The colors result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust -- illuminated by starlight -- produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Backlit dust clouds [...]

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 [...]

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