Spotted: The universe’s mane attraction :
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Check out the “mane” on this horsehead – measuring at about 0.8 light-years in width. Taken from @NASAWebb’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam), the Horsehead Nebula is found in the Orion constellation roughly 1,300 light-years away. ⁣

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Formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud of material being illuminated by a nearby hot star. The nebula is a massive cloud of gas and dust; astronomers expect it to disintegrate within the next five million years, along with the gas clouds surrounding the Horsehead that have already been dissipated. Until then, astronomers have found this region to be one of the best for studying how radiation from stars interacts with interstellar matter.⁣
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Image description: A clumpy dome of blueish-gray clouds rises about a third of the way from the bottom. Above it, streaky, translucent red wisps brush upward to about halfway up the image. The top half of the image is the black background of space with one prominent, bright white star with Webb’s 8-point diffraction spikes. Additional stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the image, although very few are seen through the thick clouds at bottom, and all are significantly smaller than the largest star.⁣
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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Karl Misselt (University of Arizona), Alain Abergel (AIM Paris-Saclay)⁣
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[ INFORMATION DATA: 30 April 2024 ]

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