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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection Collection NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection Collection
Title:
The Cat's Paw Nebula Title The Cat's Paw Nebula Title
Explanation:
As soon as we find out whose cat did this . . . Nebulae [ http://www.seds.org…] are as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats [ http://www.national…] are for getting into trouble. No cat, though, could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula [ http://www.chapman.…] visible in Scorpius [ http://www.astro.wi…]. At 5500 light years distant, Cat's Paw [ http://www.aao.gov.…] is an emission nebula [ http://fusedweb.ppp…] with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] or NGC 6334 [ http://www.aao.gov.…], stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured above [ http://www.spiegelt…], the Cat's Paw nebula was photographed during an astrophotography expedition to Namibia [ http://www.cia.gov/…]. Explanation As soon as we find out whose cat did this . . . Nebulae [ http://www.seds.org…] are as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats [ http://www.national…] are for getting into trouble. No cat, though, could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula [ http://www.chapman.…] visible in Scorpius [ http://www.astro.wi…]. At 5500 light years distant, Cat's Paw [ http://www.aao.gov.…] is an emission nebula [ http://fusedweb.ppp…] with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] or NGC 6334 [ http://www.aao.gov.…], stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured above [ http://www.spiegelt…], the Cat's Paw nebula was photographed during an astrophotography expedition to Namibia [ http://www.cia.gov/…]. Explanation
Credit and Copyright:
Bernd Flach-Wilken [ mailto:B.F.Wilken at t-online.de ] & Volker Wendel [ mailto:volker at spiegelteam.de ] (Spiegelteam), 2002 Namibia trip Credit_and_Copyright Bernd Flach-Wilken [ mailto:B.F.Wilken at t-online.de ] & Volker Wendel [ mailto:volker at spiegelteam.de ] (Spiegelteam), 2002 Namibia trip Credit and Copyright
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Namibia facet_where Namibia facet_where
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) facet_where Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) facet_where
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Scorpius facet_what Scorpius facet_what
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original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.… original_url http://antwrp.gsfc.… original url
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap030717 UID SPD-APOD-ap030717 UID

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