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by Staff Writers Sarteano, Italy (SPX) Jul 10, 2009 University of Texas at Austin graduate student Guillermo A. Blanc is talking dissection. But he's not a biologist - he's an astronomer.
The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory by a new ESO image.
by Staff Writers Mauna Kea HI (SPX) Jul 09, 2009 Astronomers have yet again rewritten the record books for discovering the most distant supernovae.
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A stunning image of the Omega Nebula has been captured by the European Southern Observatory. In the vast stellar nursery, infant stars both illuminate and sculpt a pastel fantasy of dust and gas.
The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). An active star-forming region of gas and dust about 15 light-years across, the nebula has recently spawned a cluster of massive, hot stars. The intense light and strong winds from these hulking infants have carved remarkable ...
More InformationESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe and the world’s most productive astronomical observatory. It is supported by 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. ESO carries out an ...
The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory.
The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery 5500 light-years away towards the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer), is looking positively dashing in this new image released today by the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO). The subtle color shades across the three-color composite image comes from the presence of different gases (mostly hydrogen, but also ...
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