#nebula as in stars and space dust

[fulcrum-art-fox]

“I’m fine. I just need a drink. And guns. And an arm.” That’d be in order of priority, I presume

[assassin1513]

✨⚜️🤎⚜️✨Interstellar Gold✨⚜️🤎⚜️✨

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Atlas in Stars and Dust

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)

[euphorictruths]

No Walls In The Space- Eva Nev; 2022

[dessonges]

Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star | Hubble Space Telescope

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, and HP Tau G3. HP Tau is known as a T Tauri star, a type of young variable star that hasn’t begun nuclear fusion yet but is beginning to evolve into a hydrogen-fueled star similar to our Sun. T Tauri stars tend to be younger than 10 million years old ― in comparison, our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old ― and are often found still swaddled in the clouds of dust and gas from which they formed. As with all variable stars, HP Tau’s brightness changes over time. T Tauri stars are known to have both periodic and random fluctuations in brightness. The random variations may be due to the chaotic nature of a developing young star, such as instabilities in the accretion disk of dust and gas around the star, material from that disk falling onto the star and being consumed, and flares on the star’s surface. The periodic changes may be due to giant sunspots rotating in and out of view. Curving around the stars, a cloud of gas and dust shines with their reflected light. Reflection nebulae do not emit visible light of their own, but shine as the light from nearby stars bounces off the gas and dust, like fog illuminated by the glow of a car’s headlights. HP Tau is located approximately 550 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Hubble studied HP Tau as part of an investigation into protoplanetary disks, the disks of material around stars that coalesce into planets over millions of years.

Credits : NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Université de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

[rookshocksshack]

Finished Painted Commission ~ --- https://rksk.carrd.co/ RKSK.Shop@gmail.com

[madcat-world]

Dust of Colors - aerroscape

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

Billions of stars, how many unimaginable worlds ? How do they perceive time and space ? How do they define and express art ? What is love for them ? What drives their pursuit of knowledge and understanding ? What existential questions intrigue them ? I wonder, a lot.

[eleonorpiteira]

Celestacean I painted for Hit Point Press 🐋

[blasteffect]

Stunning cosmic display !

[thefirststarr]

By starlight, this eerie face shines in the dark with a crooked profile giving it its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this telescopic portrait gives the impression that a witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. More formally known as IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula spans about 50 light-years and is composed of interstellar dust that reflects Rigel's starlight. The color of the Witch Head Nebula is caused not only by the stars intense blue light, but because the dust scatters blue light more efficiently than red. The same physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue. Rigel and this dusty cosmic crone are about 800 light-years away.

Hope everyone had a safe & fun Halloween! 👻🧡🖤💛

Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Dark Nebulae Dust in Taurus

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Webb Unveils Dark Side

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. In addition to simple ices like water, the team was able to identify frozen forms of a wide range of molecules, from carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, and methane, to the simplest complex organic molecule, methanol. This is the most comprehensive census to date of the icy ingredients available to make future generations of stars and planets, before they are heated during the formation of young stars.

 This image from the telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light-years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, center) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper). The light from numerous background stars, seen as orange dots behind the cloud, can be used to detect ices in the cloud, which absorb the starlight passing through them. 

 Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani

[euphorictruths]

NGC 3324, Cosmic Cliffs

Carina Nebula, Mystic Mountains

NGC 6872 & IC 4976

M31, Andromeda Galaxy

IC 10

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