by APOD Robot » Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:06 am
The Dark Seahorse in Cepheus
Explanation: Spanning light-years, this
suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula appears in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, obscuring clouds are part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant. It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182
dark markings of the sky cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer
E. E. Barnard. Packs of low mass stars are forming
within, but their collapsing cores are only visible at long
infrared wavelengths. Still, the colorful stars of Cepheus add to this
pretty, galactic skyscape.
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[b] Explanation: [/b] Spanning light-years, this [url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/?#abs/1916ApJ....43....1B] suggestive[/url] shape known as the Seahorse Nebula appears in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, obscuring clouds are part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant. It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182 [url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1919ApJ....49....1B]dark markings of the sky[/url] cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer [url=https://exhibit-archive.library.gatech.edu/barnard/]E. E. Barnard[/url]. Packs of low mass stars are forming [url=https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4761]within[/url], but their collapsing cores are only visible at long [url=https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves]infrared wavelengths[/url]. Still, the colorful stars of Cepheus add to this [url=http://astro.ihermans.com/nebulae/Barnard-150/index.html]pretty, galactic skyscape[/url].
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