Eagles, butterflies, and rotten eggs, oh my!
Orion Nebula
Ever wonder where stars are born? (And we don't mean reality television.) A mere 1,500 light-years from us, the Orion Nebula — pictured using infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors — is the nearest star factory. It has a heart of four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the Trapezium because of the shape they make.
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Eagle Nebula
This majestic pillar is 9.5 light-years (or about 57 trillion miles) high. Stars spawn in clouds of cold hydrogen, not unlike your own birth.
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Here's another view. These pillars of hydrogen gas and dust are incubators for new stars and are 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
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Wizard Nebula
This star cluster is in the constellation Cepheus and is about 7,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy. The technical name of the cluster is NGC 7380, but let's just pretend it's really sorcery.
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