Picture of the Day – Herschel Finds a Hole in Space
via spacefellowship.com NGC 1999 is the green tinged cloud towards the top of the image. The dark spot to the right was thought to be a cloud of dense dust and gas until Herschel looked at it. It…
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Astronomy Picture of the Day – Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
via spacefellowship.com This image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, constellation. Herschel collects the infrared…
Astronomy Picture of the Day – Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy.
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