Credit & Copyright: Sergio Kaminsky
Explanation:
Light-years across, this
suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula
appears in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars.
Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus,
the dusty, obscuring clouds are part of a Milky Way
molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant.
It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182
dark markings of the sky
cataloged in the early 20th century
by astronomer E. E. Barnard.
Packs of low mass stars are forming
within
from collapsing cores only visible at long
infrared wavelengths.
Still, colorful stars in Cepheus add to the
pretty, galactic
skyscape.
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Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr' |
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