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NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula 2005 November 7 Credit & Copyright: Russell Croman Explanation: It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible above to...

How would you explain the dust clouds around young clusters - for example the Pleiades? Dust clouds are created by stars shreading their shells and expelling them into space. You may have to look at the workings and process of a star and its dating everytime it realeases the shell. In many cases the...

The idea that stars are ejected is not a joke. The flares that are created by blackholes indeed eject not just one star but clusters of them. This idea cannot be fogotten. There are many examles of this. m87 is a prime example. It is part of the recycle process of the universe. Search for the eviden...

Travelling greater than the speed of light is probable. Like sound waves travelling through the air, man has found ways to use the medium and travel much faster. Same with space as soon as man gets to understands the medium than there is no stopping of man travelling much faster than the speed of li...

The 37 Cluster Credit & Copyright: Noel Carboni Explanation: For the mostly harmless denizens of planet Earth, the brighter stars of open cluster NGC 2169 seem to form a cosmic 37. (Did you expect 42?.) Of course, the improbable numerical asterism appears solely by chance and lies at an estimate...

Young Stars of NGC 346 Credit: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI) et al., ESA, NASA Explanation: Star cluster NGC 346 is embedded in the largest star forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, some 210,000 light-years distant. The massive stars of NGC 346 are short lived, but very energetic. Their winds ...