Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

PAH emission is typically very bright and PAH ... WST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 Els Peeters et al, PDRs4All ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

The green dotted lines are the modeled emission, taking into account all RLLs and molecular lines. The background is the image of the heart-shaped Orion nebula (M42), with Orion KL located within ...

Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star ... from the 1920s showed that it had features of an emission nebula, giving off its own glow separate from that of the stars in ...

In the new images, the rings turned out to be very bright with respect to the inner shell of the nebula. Furthermore, the observations found the existence of faint emission extending outside the ...