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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
Explanation:
Scattered within this cavernous nebula [ http://oposite.stsc…], cataloged as NGC 604 [ http://www.seds.org…], are over 200 newly formed hot, massive, stars. At 1,500 light-years across, this expansive cloud of interstellar gas and dust is effectively a giant stellar nursery located some three million light-years distant in the spiral galaxy, M33 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The newborn stars irradiate the gas with energetic ultraviolet light [ http://trifle.gsfc.…Astro1_pictures.html ] stripping electrons from atoms and producing a characteristic nebular glow [ http://vis.sdsc.edu…]. The details [ http://adsbit.harva…nph-iarticle_query?1 996ApJ...456..174H ] of the nebula's structure hold clues to the mysteries of star formation and galaxy evolution.
Credit and Copyright:
H. Yang (UIUC [ http://www.uiuc.edu/]), HST [ http://oposite.stsc…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
star formation
keyword:
emission nebula
keyword:
stars
keyword:
ngc604
keyword:
m33
facet_where:
M33
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_what:
New General Catalogue (NGC)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap021102

NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
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