Sentences with phrase «only the brightest nebula»

M78 is only the brightest nebula in this picture, above it is NGC 2071, and the region to the right of M78 is NGC 2064 and NGC 2067.

Not exact matches

At the time, the limited telescopic power available to Herschel, who was observing visually, only allowed him to document the brightest «toepad» of the Cat's Paw Nebula.

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.

Of particular interest is a star at the center of the nebula, just below the brightest region, whose intense light and furious winds appear to have driven out the local gas, forming a spherical void perhaps only 30,000 years agoquite recent, by astronomical standards.

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.

When John Herschel discovered this nebula in 1834 he could only see several bright nebulous patches and eventually this nebula received six separate classification numbers.

Also included in this list is the much more distant NGC 3603 nebula which is in the same area of the sky; this nebula is only the brightest part of an enormous nebulous region which probably extends over 1000 light years of space.

The numerous dark patches in this picture show that the Eagle and Omega nebulae are only the brightest areas in a region which also contains many dark nebulae.

The name NGC 3503 however, only refers to a tiny bright patch of this nebula.

The four quasars — extremely bright masses of light and energy that exist only in the farthest reaches of the known universe — were found huddled together in a nebula 10 billion light - years away, the first time four quasars have ever been spotted so close together, according to the atronomers» findings published Friday in the journal Science.