Sentences with phrase «reflection nebula»
The nebula is in fact a combination of an emission nebula (the lower part), a reflection nebula (the upper part) and an open cluster.
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The bright red area in the bottom right is light from the star in the centre — Sigma Scorpii — that is reflected off of the dust surrounding it, creating what is called a reflection nebula.
Left - the IC 2169 reflection nebula.
This nebula is a typical example of a reflection nebula - the dust in the nebula scatters light from stars within the nebula and makes the nebula shine with a blue glow.
NGC 6914 is a small reflection nebula in this region.
Which bright young stars light up the blue reflection nebula is still being investigated.
The blue colour of this nebula is typical of a reflection nebula - the gas and dust in the nebula do not emit any light, instead it is merely reflecting light from stars within the nebula.
Right - the bright reflection nebula M78.
In the middle is M78 - a reflection nebula near the Orion nebula.
The smaller Sh 2 - 292 (Gum 1, RCW 2, VdB 93, NGC 2327) is both a reflection nebula and HII region and forms the «head» of the Seagull.
Located about 1,200 light - years from Earth in the southern constellation of Carina (the Ship's Keel), the Toby Jug Nebula, more formally known as IC 2220, is an example of a reflection nebula.
Blue light from a newborn star lights up the reflection nebula IC 2631.
As it turns out, this condensation process occurs in various regions throughout dark nebulae (reflection nebulae, as well, which are really nothing more than dark nebulae that reflect the light of nearby stars).
μm) spectra, obtained on the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope at McDonald Observatory with the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS)(Park et al. 2014, SPIE, 9147, 1), for a variety of Galactic PDRs including regions of high mass star formation, reflection nebulae, and planetary nebulae.
HBC 494 is an FU Ori - like object embedded in the Orion A cloud and is associated with the reflection nebulae Re50 and Re50N.
This giant cloud, or complex of clouds, of interstellar matter and young stars contains, besides M42 and the neighboring DeMairan Nebula (M43), and the nebulosity associated with them (NGC 1973-5-7), a number of famous objects, including Barnard's Loop, the Horsehead Nebula region (also containing NGC 2024, or Orion B), and the reflection nebulae around M78.
The icon shows reflection nebulae in Scorpius around Antares.
In the very neighborhood, to the north, there are also fainter reflection nebulae, partially reflecting the light of the Great Nebula.
Immediately south of the star cloud, separated by a dark band, is the emission nebula IC 1283 - 1284, with two adjacent reflection nebulae, NGC 6589 and NGC 6590, all these nebulae associated with the little conspicuous open cluster NGC 6595.
Eventually, in 1912, Vesto M. Slipher discovered that the nebulae in the Pleiades, M45, had the same spectra as the stars illuminating them, thus proving their nature as reflection nebulae.
Reflection nebulae reflect light from just one or several nearby stars.