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[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Star formation can be messy. To help find out just how messy, ESA's new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the most detailed image ever of the bright star forming region M78. Near the image center, M78 lies at a distance of only about 1,300 light-years away and has a main glowing core that spans about 5 light-years.

Image Credit: ESA, Euclid, Euclid Consortium, NASA; Processing: J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi

[tiempoydestino]

Abrazo los vientos que me llevan a otro sol, aullan como cantos de sirena, y arrullado entre antiguos pliegos de papel y la música de otras existencias, me siento acompañado por todos y por nadie en este camino a una nueva vida.

[laestrellaalfa]

"Tan hermosa como un ángel, pero tan fuerte como un demonio..."

—Aries, Cáncer, Tauro, Virgo, Capricornio y Libra.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

NGC 7331 Acquired with the Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon

Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is one of several jellyfish galaxies Hubble has been studying over the past two years.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This globular cluster, NGC 4147, seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, was one of many which were used by astronomers to measure the total mass of the Milky Way.

NGC 4147 is located about 60 000 light-years from Earth in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (the Berenice's hair).

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Sohn et al.

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This Hubble image captures a portion of a dark nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Dark nebulae ― also called absorption nebulae ― are clouds of gas and dust that neither emit nor reflect light, instead blocking light coming from behind them. These nebulae tend to contain large amounts of dust, which allows them to absorb visible light from stars or nebulae beyond them.

Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

M104: The Sombrero Galaxy (apod)