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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Туманность Лисий Мех http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1177573/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Anglo-Australian Observatory, Photograph by
David Malin
Explanation:
The nebula surrounding bright star S Mon
is filled with dark dust and glowing gas.
The strange shapes
that surrounding this star originate from fine interstellar
dust reacting in
complex ways with the energetic light and
hot gas being expelled by the young stars.
The region just below
S Mon, the bright star in the
above picture, is nicknamed the
Fox Fur Nebula for its color and texture.
The blue glow directly surrounding S Mon results from
reflection,
where neighboring dust reflects light from the bright star.
The more diffuse red glow results from
emission,
where starlight ionizes
hydrogen gas.
Pink areas are lit by a combination of the two processes.
S Mon is part of a young
open cluster of stars named
NGC 2264, located about 2500
light years away toward the constellation of
Monoceros, just
north of the
Cone Nebula.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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