Nebula Christmas Tree Image rip across the southern hemisphere

rip across the southern hemisphere

Image Credit: Hubble

with the lower-phase-angle (and therefore fainter) regions of these rings brightened the most

thick clouds of hydrogen gas and dust have survived longer than their surroundings in the face of a blast of ultraviolet light from the hot

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new

Nebula Christmas Tree Image rip across the southern hemisphereThis color image of the region known as NGC 2264 an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone Nebula was created from data taken through four different filters (B, V, R and H alpha) with the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, 2400 m high in the Atacama Desert of Chile in the foothills of the Andes. The image shows a region of space about 30 light years across.