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Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus - Nebula IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus: IC2944...

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Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus - Nebula IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus: IC2944 - SHO 70 70 70 Bin 2 - Nebula IC 2948 is a vast nebula located about 6000 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is associated with the cluster of stars IC 2944 near which Bok's blood cells are visible. A Bok's blood cell is a dark interstellar cloud of gases and dust that absorb light. If it condenses enough, it gives birth to new stars - Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (in blue), hydrogen (in green), and sulfur (in red) - Between the Southern Cross and the rich Carina region, on the southern border of Centaurus, is a large, almost featureless emission nebula, IC 2948, with a sprinkling of bright stars, Collinder 249. It is against this uniform, backdrop that we see a brighter region (IC 2944) which hosts small group of dark clouds of the kind known as 'Bok globules'. They are named for the Dutch-American astronomer who first drew attention to them as the possible sites of star formation. There are young stars scattered through the nebula and these stars are responsible for its existence. The stars only 10 million years old and the hydrogen they illuminate seems to be unusually thinly spread and very uniform, so the nebula is both faint and extensive. It is also quite distant, about 6000 light years and is only two degrees from the Galactic plane, so there are many foreground stars. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H-alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors
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Nebula IC 2948 in Centaurus - Nebula IC 2948 and IC 2944 in Centaurus: IC2944 - SHO 70 70 70 Bin 2 - Nebula IC 2948 is a vast nebula located about 6000 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is associated with the cluster of stars IC 2944 near which Bok's blood cells are visible. A Bok's blood cell is a dark interstellar cloud of gases and dust that absorb light. If it condenses enough, it gives birth to new stars - Image obtained through 3 different filters that highlight oxygen (in blue), hydrogen (in green), and sulfur (in red) - Between the Southern Cross and the rich Carina region, on the southern border of Centaurus, is a large, almost featureless emission nebula, IC 2948, with a sprinkling of bright stars, Collinder 249. It is against this uniform, backdrop that we see a brighter region (IC 2944) which hosts small group of dark clouds of the kind known as 'Bok globules'. They are named for the Dutch-American astronomer who first drew attention to them as the possible sites of star formation. There are young stars scattered through the nebula and these stars are responsible for its existence. The stars only 10 million years old and the hydrogen they illuminate seems to be unusually thinly spread and very uniform, so the nebula is both faint and extensive. It is also quite distant, about 6000 light years and is only two degrees from the Galactic plane, so there are many foreground stars. This image is in the classic “” Hubble palette”” where SII is assigned to red, H-alpha to green, and OIII to blue. RGB frames were taken for star colors

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astronomy / fake color / star / centaur / astronomy / centaurus / star / Novapix / astronomy / false color / South Hemisphere / southern hemisphere / Young Star / Young Star / star formation / Star Training / nebula / Emission Nebula / Nebula emission / nebula / ic 2944 / Sii-ha-Oii / Bok Globule / ic 2948

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