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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Вдоль молекулярного облака в Тельце http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1912710/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Yuexiao Shen,
Joe Hua
Explanation:
The cosmic brush of star formation composed
this interstellar
canvas
of emission, dust, and dark nebulae.
A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region
found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky,
at an inner wall of
the
local bubble
along the Taurus molecular cloud.
At lower left, emission cataloged as
Sh2-239
shows signs of embedded young stellar objects.
The region's
Herbig-Haro objects,
nebulosities associated
with newly born stars,
are marked by
tell-tale reddish jets of shocked hydrogen gas.
Above and right T Tauri,
the prototype of the class of
T Tauri variable stars,
is next to a yellowish nebula historically known as Hind's Variable
Nebula (NGC 1555).
T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young,
less than a few million years old,
sun-like stars still in the early
stages of formation.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.