What can you do on a snow day? Make a celestial snow angel! ❄⁣

 

   What can you do on a snow day? Make a celestial snow angel! :

⁣Taken by @NASAHubble, the Sharpless 2-106 Nebula is nearly 2,000 light-years from Earth and it stretches several light-years across. This star-forming region looks like a celestial snow angel soaring in space. Twin lobes of hot gas create the “wings” that stretch outward from the central star against the backdrop of a cold medium. A ring of dust acting as a belt is cinching the nebula into an “hourglass” shape. ⁣

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Image description: At the center of the image, two bipolar light-blue lobes of hot gas. Dusky red veins surround the blue emission from the nebula. In the middle of the lobes surrounded with red dust is a young star known as IRS-4. The faint light emanating from the central star reflects off of tiny dust particles. Red dust and bright stars surround the nebula in the background of the darkness of space. ⁣

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Cradit : NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) ⁣

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25 January 2024