Sentences with phrase «large bright nebula»
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SHINE BRIGHT Supernova 1987A shone as a brilliant point of light near the Tarantula Nebula (pink cloud) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as pictured from an observatory in Chile.
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Meanwhile, ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a deep look into the Lobster Nebula, capturing the many hot, bright stars that influence the object's colour and shape (eso1226).
About 4,500 light - years away in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, the nebula is large enough to be visible through small telescopes; if it were bright enough in the visible spectrum it could be seen by the naked eye, occupying several times as much of the sky as the full moon.
Called an «enormous Lyman - alpha nebula» (ELAN), it is the brightest and among the largest of these rare objects, only a handful of which have been observed.
«It's extremely bright, and it's probably larger than the Slug Nebula, but there's nothing else visible except the faint smudge of a galaxy.
This picture of the dramatic nebula around the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse was created from images taken with the VISIR infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
This map of bright nebulae in the constellation of Orion shows how the Orion Nebula (M42) is only a small part of a large collection of bright nebulae.