7 Fascinating Pictures Of Nebulas Captured By NASA

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7 Fascinating Pictures Of Nebulas Captured By NASA

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Stingray Nebula

Archival imagery from NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals that Hen 3-1357, often called the Stingray Nebula, has dimmed significantly over the past 20 years. Observing such rapid transformation in a planetary nebula is exceptionally rare, researchers note.

Crab Nebula

Most images of the famous Crab Nebula emphasise its outer filaments, but this image focuses on the core, highlighting the neutron star at its centre. Among the two bright stars near the centre, the neutron star is the one to the right.

Lagoon Nebula

This detailed image of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) showcases intricate formations created as the intense radiation from young stars interacts with the surrounding hydrogen cloud from which they emerged.

PK 329-02.2

The planetary nebula PK 329-02.2, located in the constellation Norma in the southern sky, is also known as Menzel 2 or Mz 2, after the astronomer Donald Menzel, who discovered it in 1922.

Trumpler 14

A colour-composite view of the Carina Nebula, captured by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in Chile, reveals intricate details of stars and dust. The open star cluster Trumpler 14, a group of exceptionally bright young stars, is circled in red within this image.

Orion Nebula

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a glimpse into a stellar nursery, discovering around 50 newborn brown dwarfs within the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium cluster, located about 1,500 light-years from Earth, using its near-infrared camera.

Serpens Nebula

This image of the Serpens Nebula was captured by the HAWK-I instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory. The filters used by HAWK-I cover wavelengths similar to those used by the Hubble Space Telescope.