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Spectacular cosmic bubble '60 light years wide and 70,000 years old' This spectacular cosmic bubble was caused by a gas expulsion from a dying star and is 60 light years across and 70,000 years old. At its centre is a star, known as a Wolf-Rayet star which is 20 times the mass of the sun. When it dies it thr...

Pillars of cold gas and dark dust are seen in the centre of the star forming region of Sharpless 171. An open cluster of stars is forming there from the gas in cold molecular clouds. As energetic light emitted by young massive stars boils away the opaque dust, the region fragments and picturesque pil...

A dramatic new image from the Gemini North telescope illustrates the dynamic and sometimes violent process of star birth. It also demonstrates the capabilities of new filters available to researchers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Known as Sharpless 2-106 (Sh2-106), the h...

WISE Eyes Evolution of Massive Stars In the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, opposite the galactic centre, lies the nebula SH 2-235. As seen in visible light, SH 2-235 appears to be a small amber-coloured dust cloud that spans about a tenth the size of the full Moon. In infrared light, NASAs W...

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Sharpless Sharpless 308 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	0	1594	Apr 27 13:33 2009 by Blobrana
Spectacular cosmic bubble '60 light years wide and 70,000 years old' This spectacular cosmic bubble was caused by a gas expulsion from a dying star and is 60 light years across and 70,000 years old. At its centre is a star, known as a Wolf-Rayet star which is 20 times the mass of the sun. When it dies it thr...
Sharpless Sharpless 171 (Preview)	Art gallery	0	726	Sep 27 11:13 2005 by Blobrana
Pillars of cold gas and dark dust are seen in the centre of the star forming region of Sharpless 171. An open cluster of stars is forming there from the gas in cold molecular clouds. As energetic light emitted by young massive stars boils away the opaque dust, the region fragments and picturesque pil...
Sharpless Sharpless 2-106 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	4	902	Jun 4 00:34 2012 by Blobrana
A dramatic new image from the Gemini North telescope illustrates the dynamic and sometimes violent process of star birth. It also demonstrates the capabilities of new filters available to researchers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Known as Sharpless 2-106 (Sh2-106), the h...
Sharpless Sharpless 2-232 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	0	533	Apr 8 21:56 2011 by Blobrana
WISE Eyes Evolution of Massive Stars In the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, opposite the galactic centre, lies the nebula SH 2-235. As seen in visible light, SH 2-235 appears to be a small amber-coloured dust cloud that spans about a tenth the size of the full Moon. In infrared light, NASAs W...