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Keywords: star formation, molecular cloud
![NGC 6357: туманность Лобстер](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/02/07/0001375563/LobsterCat_VLT_960.preview.jpg)
7.02.2017
Why is the Lobster Nebula forming some of the most massive stars known? No one is yet sure. Near the more obvious Cat's Paw nebula on the upper right, the Lobster Nebula...
![Трехраздельная туманность в инфракрасном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/31/0001373732/trifid_spitzerR1024.preview.jpg)
31.12.2016
The Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope, a well known stop in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. But where visible light pictures show the nebula...
![APOD: 2024 July 16 Б Cometary Globules](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/07/16/0001933456/CometaryGlobs_Pugh_1080.preview.jpg)
16.07.2024
What are these unusual interstellar structures? Bright-rimmed, flowing shapes gather near the center of this rich starfield toward the borders of the nautical southern constellations Pupis and Vela. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, the grouping of light-year sized cometary globules is about 1300 light-years distant.
![Внутри туманности Орла](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/02/16/0001300903/eagle_kp09_960.preview.jpg)
16.02.2014
From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed.
![Необычная глобула в IC 1396](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/04/14/0001307984/ic1396a_kpno4m_960.preview.jpg)
14.04.2014
Is there a monster in IC 1396? Known to some as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, parts of gas and dust clouds of this star formation region may appear to take on foreboding forms, some nearly human. The only real monster here, however, is a bright young star too far from Earth to hurt us.
![Когда розы не красные](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/02/22/0001399069/RosetteNebulaNBHColesHelm1024.preview.jpg)
22.02.2018
Not all roses are red of course, but they can still be very pretty. Likewise, the beautiful Rosette Nebula and other star forming regions are often shown in astronomical images with a predominately red hue, in part because the dominant emission in the nebula is from hydrogen atoms.
![Звезды и пыль в Южной Короне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/10/18/0001390826/NGC6726_ColesPugh_960.preview.jpg)
18.10.2017
Blue dust clouds and young, energetic stars inhabit this telescopic vista, less than 500 light-years away toward the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. The dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way.
![NGC 1333: звездные ясли в Персее](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/03/27/0001463701/A_NGC1333_APOD1024.preview.jpg)
27.03.2019
NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud.
![Звездная фабрика Мессье 17](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/09/12/0001908329/OmegaNebulaGrandMesaObservatory2023_1024.preview.jpg)
8.09.2023
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this 1/3 degree wide field of view spans over 30 light-years.
![К югу от Ориона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/01/27/0001806629/NGC-1999_1100.preview.jpg)
27.01.2022
South of the large star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula, lies bright blue reflection nebula NGC 1999. At the edge of the Orion molecular cloud complex some 1,500 light-years distant, NGC 1999's illumination is provided by the embedded variable star V380 Orionis.
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