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NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
Explanation: In visible light NGC 1333 is seen 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.
This Hubble Space Telescope close-up frames a region just over 1 light-year wide at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from
Herbig-Haro objects,
jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still
hidden from optical telescopes by the
pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago.
Hubble's stunning image of the stellar nursery was released to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the space telescope's launch.
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[b] Explanation: [/b] In visible light NGC 1333 is seen as a [url=http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cms/astro/cosmos/R/Reflection+Nebula]reflection nebula[/url], dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation [url=http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/per/index.html]Perseus[/url], it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud. [url=https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-celebrates-33rd-anniversary-with-a-peek-into-nearby-star-forming-region]This Hubble Space Telescope[/url] close-up frames a region just over 1 light-year wide at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbig-Haro_object#Discovery_and_history_of_observations]Herbig-Haro[/url] objects, [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140204.html]jets and shocked glowing gas[/url] emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still [url=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/224-ssc2005-24-Beautiful-Chaos-of-Star-Birth]hidden from optical telescopes[/url] by the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210318.html]pervasive stardust[/url]. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago. [url=https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-012]Hubble's stunning image[/url] of the stellar nursery was released to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the space telescope's launch.
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