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Infrared observations indicate that this nebula may contain complex carbon molecules known as PAHs.

Previously, almost all solar systems seemed to be engulfed by a nebula and there was very little black in the sky around you.

Most scientists believe that the solar system formed from a Nebula of gas, dust and ices, that turned into a disk around the developing sun.

Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula.

The name stuck even though the opposite turned out to be true: this type of nebula consists of gas molted from dying stars.

Explanation: One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud.

Pictured above is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy.

The dark shape was once assumed to be an obscuring dust cloud seen in silhouette against the bright reflection nebula.

It is one of the best examples of a planetary nebula and a favorite target of amateur astronomers.

l Nebula (plural nebulae) was the word once used for and fuzzy patch of light in the night sky.

The general shape of the average nebula is that of a thin circular disk somewhat thick in the center.

In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town.

It is within this sort of psychic nebula that the sense of core weight and flowering lightness originate.

So most people, you know, kind of have no idea of the difference between like, an emission nebula and a planetary nebula.

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

About 5 light-years long and a mere 800 light-years away, the Pencil Nebula is only a small part of the Vela supernova remnant.

In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: aneutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a smalltown.

Like brush strokes on a canvas, ridges of color seem to flow across the Lagoon Nebula, a canvas nearly 3 light-years wide.

Were the Tarantula Nebula at the distance of the Orion Nebula -- a local star forming region -- it would take up fully half the sky.

Messier 27 (M27) is an excellent example of a gaseous emission nebula created as a sun-like star runs out of nuclear fuel in its core.

Also visible, near the bottom of the image, is ten light-year long pillar sometimes dubbed the Fairy of Eagle Nebula .

Explanation: Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the bright star Antares is a flowing dark cloud nicknamed the Dark River.

Explanation: By starlight this eerie visage shines in the dark, a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula.

An unexpectedly varying Crab Nebula might have affected any research that used the Crab as a standard or a calibration tool.

This radiation and solar wind began to push out the remaining dust and gas of the nebula, sweeping the Solar system clean.

Explanation: The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula.

Explanation: In one of the brightest parts of Milky Way lies a nebula where some of the oddest things occur.

They tower above the surface of a molecular cloud on the edge of the nebula.

Just below the Southern Cross on the far left is the dark Coal Sack Nebula, and the bright nebula on the far right is the Carina Nebula.

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Many famous sites in our Galaxy are visible, including the Pipe Nebula and the Dark River to Antares, seen to the right of the Milky Way.

The material of this nebula was more than 99% hydrogen and helium, the two simplest elements.

This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals "The Cat's Eye Nebula" to be one of the most complex "planetary nebulae" known.

Explanation: Bright blue stars are still forming in the dark pillars of the Eagle Nebula.

This new Hubble photo is but a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula.

If the cloud is visible, we call it a nebula. An example is the Eagle nebula below.

As if to don a crown of heavenly jewels, the Cone Nebula rises 7 light-years into the Monoceros constellation.

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In the heart of monstrous Tarantula Nebula lies huge bubbles of energetic gas, long filaments of dark dust, and unusually massive stars.

To the left of the Horsehead Nebula, visible as the small dark indentation near the image top, is the photogenic Flame Nebula.

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The nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical supernova explosion.

The curious compact cometary shape near the bottom edge is Hubble's Variable Nebula.

Expelled over a period of thousands of years, the lovely, intricate nebula is the outer atmosphere of a once sun-like star.

And the heavier oxygen from a natural process that left more of the light isotope in the part of the nebula that made the sun.

Previous images of the Ring Nebula taken by visible-light telescopes usually showed just the inner glowing loop of gas around the star.

Star and nebula are moving rapidly toward the top of the detailed view, as suggested by the nebula's brighter, upper, leading edge.

But a few grains have survived from the primitive nebula that the solar system condensed from.

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat&squots Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known.

The nebula to the left is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart.

Many scientists think our solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula.

Here, the bright star near the dust vortex creates the light of surrounding reflection nebula.

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, 5, 000 light years away from us in the constellation Centaurus.

The Crab Nebula, one of the most-studied celestial objects, is the remnant of a supernova that was observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054.

the nebula does not emit any visible light of its own.

On the image right, stars, gaseous filaments, and warm dust highlight a detailed infrared view of the Heart nebula.

Finding Barnard 163 in an image of its greater emission nebula IC 1396 can be a challenge, but it's possible.

Soon the unusual dark patch of the Coal Sack Nebula can be seen on the Milky Way band, near the famous Southern Cross.

When the Sun ignited in the solar nebula, hydrogen, helium and other volatile materials were evaporated in the area near the Sun.

A stroboscopic picture, a stroboscopic exposure was made of the center portion of the Crab Nebula.

A closer look of the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust.

The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments.

Hence, it is rare that an open cluster survives long enough for one of its members to form a planetary nebula.

Astrophysicists have long thought of the Crab Nebula as a steady "standard candle" in X-ray wavelengths.

Our own sun will blossom into a planetary nebula when it dies in about five billion years.

Explanation: Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805.

The spectacular planetary nebula Helix Nebula is the death of a star disguised as a butterfly.

Formation ages of Ca-Al-rich inclusions and chondrules may speculate the time-scale of evolution of the early solar nebula.

Wider field images reveal that IC 1805's simpler, overall outline suggests its popular name - The Heart Nebula.

Similar epic battles are being waged all over the star-forming Carina Nebula.

More than 9, 000 light-years away from Earth, stars form within the star cluster NGC 281, colloquially known as the "Pacman Nebula. "

At the nebula's centre is a young binary star system that surely powers the nebula but does not, as yet, explain its colours.

As the electrons move through the magnetized nebula, they radiate away their energy and create the elaborate nebula seen by Chandra.

The blue glow that surrounds the Blue Horsehead's eye -- and other stars around the image -- is a reflection nebula composed of fine dust.

Yet it is unlikely that the software cloud will end up as a vast nebula of thousands of specialised services.

It will evolve into a cosmic butterfly - a spectacular planetary nebula in the starry sky .

The typical size of a nebula is about hundred light years. Nebulae are made up of gases and dusts.

The result is called, somewhat misleadingly, a planetary nebula.

Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known technically as NGC6960 but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula .

The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star.

The central planetary nebula nucleus (PNN) or white dwarf central star is the fainter of these two stars.

Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1, 500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini.

Still, this beautiful digital image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries in impressive detail.

As the nebula collapsed because of its gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk.

Explanation: In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left.

Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation.

The Ghost Head Nebula spans about 50 light-years and is shown in representative colors.

Explanation: Stars come and go as you slide your cursor over this engaging image of M8, aka the Lagoon Nebula.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds a delicate flower in the Ring Nebula, as shown in this image.

The nebula is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star.

The entire nebula might even look like a face of a monster.

The Crab Nebula is the brightest source of reasonably steady high-energy radiation (X-rays and gamma rays) in the sky.

Photograph of the "Great Andromeda Nebula" from 1899, later identified as the Andromeda Galaxy.

A dark, obscuring dust cloud, the simple, sculpted shape of the Cone Nebula is near the lower left edge.

The same cannot be said for the recently discovered Soap Bubble Nebula, however.

The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star.

Above is a dramatically detailed close-up of the dying star's nebula recorded by the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.

A bright knot of gas and dust in the nebula 's center is known as the Hourglass Nebula .

The Horsehead Nebula: New stars have already formed inside part of it.

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The constellation's nebula is invisible to the unaided eye, but can be resolved with binoculars or small telescopes.

Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius.

Dust and gas envelop a cluster of massive stars called Pismis 24 in a new picture of a nebula in the constellation Scorpius.

The great gas pillar is being eroded by the ultraviolet radiation from the hottest newborn stars in the nebula.

Composed of many overlapping clouds, the sprawling Tarantula Nebula left of center, is by far the LMC's largest star forming region.

Explanation: This tantalizing array of nebulae and stars can be found about 2 degrees south of the famous star-forming Orion Nebula.

Two stars can be seen in the center of this Southern Ring Nebula in the southern hemisphere.

The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100, 000 years.

Not a star at all, the Orion Nebula contributes a pinkish tint below center.

This hot shroud extends far beyond the cooler, optical nebula and represents the outer edge of the interaction region.

Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon.

Reminiscent of Hubble's classic image of the Eagle Nebula dubbed the 'Pillars of Creation' this image is even more striking in appearance.

Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left.

The dominant color of the brighter reflection nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight.

Combined data from four X-ray satellites shows fluctuations in the Crab Nebula's X-ray output over the last 12 years.

Asteroids are the rocky remains from the collapse of a solar nebula.

The winds the star sends ripping through space appear to have generated the nebula's distinctive shape.

Mountains of opaque dust appear on the right, while other dark filaments of dust are visible threaded throughout the nebula.

The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787.

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A recent Hubble image of part of the nebula has uncovered a very massive star escaping from the region.

But, formed within the nebula, that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow.

The emission region to the right of the North America Nebula is IC 5070, also known for its suggestive outlines as the Pelican Nebula.

The scene is anchored at the top left by the eerie blue glow and ominous dark dust lanes of reflection nebula M78.

The Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby star birth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas .

In the fourth photo released by NASA, the running chicken nebula, also known as nebula IC 2944 or Lambda Centauri, is shown.

Many objections can be raised to this picture of planetary nebula formation.

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The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's image has revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process.

About 7, 500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop.

Chondrules are spherical bodies formed early during the formation of the solar nebula.

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SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy.

So-called "elephant trunk" pillars resist being heated and eaten away by blistering ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's brightest stars.

It was in the outer area of the great nebula called Andromeda.

Many notable sky objects are visible, including dark strands of the Pipe Nebula and the reddish Lagoon Nebula to the tower's right.

The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.

There is one other possible explanation for what scientists have seen: They could be watching the birth instead of a pulsar wind nebula.

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1, 500 light-years away.

Astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a nebula (see photo) and called it the Eye of God, according to the UK's Daily Telegraph.

The colors map emission from ionized gas in the nebula were recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

The giant was identified at the centre of a star cluster in the Tarantula Nebula.

At 5, 500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms.

Dusty NGC 1333 is seen as a reflection nebula in visible light images, sporting bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by dust.

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Fifth, here is the Hourglass Nebula located 8000 light years away, a beautiful nebula with a narrowing in its central part.

The soccer-ball nebula findings were presented Monday at an International Astronomical Union symposium in Puerto de la Cruz, Spain.

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But most of the stars in the sky are far away galaxies or nebula.

Explanation: The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation.

To the left of S Mon is the Fox Fur nebula, a tumultuous region created by the rapidly evolving Snowflake cluster.

Betelgeuse is the reddish star near the center and the Belt of Orion and the Orion Nebula are farther right.

Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope provided an image of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula.

Explanation: Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth.

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Made with data from the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands, the composite picture shows extended emission from the nebula.

This tantalizing false-color skyscape spans about 20 light-years across the nebula's bright central region.

Meanwhile, newborn stars are emitting intense ultraviolet radiation, heating the gas and causing the nebula to glow.

Seen in visible light, the nebula known as SH 2-235 looks like a small, amber cloud.

Today, the Crab Nebula is still expanding and it will eventually dissolve in the interstellar gas cloud nearby.

Pictured above is part ofthe most detailed image of the Carina Nebula ever taken where dark molecular clouds are particularly prominent.

The nebula is shown above in unprecedented detail as captured recently by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The spectacular Horsehead Nebula is actually a projection of cold gas and dust extending from the dense Orion Molecular Cloud.

These pillars of cold hydrogen and dust, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are located in the Carina Nebula.

The Retina Nebula of the Southern sky's Lupus constellation peers at Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera.

Pictured above, a wide angle, deep field image of the Cat's Paw nebula was culled from the second Digitized Sky Survey.

Perhaps the original spiral nebula, M51 is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.

A new panorama of a cosmic nebula offers an up-close glimpse of baby stars being born.

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Also known as M8, the nebula is a star-forming region in the constellation Sagittarius.

How big they get depends on their distance from the star and the density and composition of the protoplanetary nebula.

The nebula was named after its resemblance to a dumbbell when seen in visible light.

Intriguing details of the nebula are visible in this scientifically-colored image.

Violent stellar winds and powerful radiation from massive stars sculpt the surrounding nebula.

The narrow band data traces atoms in the nebula, with emission from sulfur atoms in red, hydrogen atoms in green, and oxygen in blue.

How was the unusual Red Rectangle nebula created?

Therefore, they may record the formation and evolution of the solar nebula and asteroids.

Pictured above, the end of the Cat's Paw nebula was imaged from Mayall 4-Meter Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.

And it is these that are helping scientists to resolve the outstanding mysteries of the complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebula.

The nebula lies about 5, 800 light-years from Earth and is home to a cluster of relatively young stars born about eight million years ago.

It was seen in 1987 amid vast billows of gas in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars that energizes the glowing gas.

As we have discussed in the last chapter, the density of a nebula is very low. And it contains mostly hydrogen.

Humans are receiving energy emanations from this nebula, which affect the molecular spin within the blood.

The nebula is the swansong of a dying solar-like star lying at its centre.

Several young open clusters of stars populate the image and are visible above in blue, including the nebula centers.

This color view of the Cocoon Nebula traces remarkably subtle features within and surrounding the dusty stellar nursery.

In total, the Cat's Paw Nebula could contain several tens of thousands of stars.

The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia .

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring, false-color, telescopic view.

Instead the nebula glows with light from hydrogen gas being charged by the stars' radiation.

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Explanation: The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating.

l The Great Nebula of Orion is a glowing nebula just visible to the naked eye.

Each one is like a sun with a retinue of planets orbiting around it, and we can see places where stars are forming, like the Eagle Nebula.

Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula.

The deep mosaic also includes( left of center), the Horsehead Nebula, the Flame Nebula, and Orion 's belt stars.

A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years.

The central or brightest part of a nebula or galaxy.

A classic planetary nebula, the Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star.

The fixed star throws to shoot the material continuously and outwardly, the formation nebula.

Collisions between gas in the inner and outer regions are creating many hot blue stars and pink emission nebula.

A planetary nebula is an expanding cloud of gas ejected from a star that is nearing the end of its life.

Most of this matter was pulled to the center of the nebula.

Explanation: The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in colorful contrasts.

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Other types of nebulas visible here include red emission nebula and the blue reflection nebula.

N11 has seen three successive generations of star birth, each occurring farther from the center of the nebula.

l The Ring nebula in Lyra is the best-known of the planetary nebulae.

The nebula is part of a catalog published by Stewart Sharpless in 1959.

Other types of nebula visible here include red emission nebula and the blue reflection nebula.

The diffuse nebula is ising similar such as its name, have no obvious boundary, usually presenting the irregular shape.

As shown here, the bright blue portion of the Iris Nebula is about six light-years across.

As the Eye of Palpatine passed through the Moonflower Nebula, Callista and Geith boldly tried to destroy the station.

The shape, visual texture, and color, combine to give the region the popular name Fox Fur Nebula.

This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion.

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Located nearly 1, 500 light-years away from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the hunter constellation.

Also known as M20, it lies about 5, 000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius.

The dimmer star emits ultraviolet radiation to illuminate the nebula .

The nebula is a massive, star-forming cloud of gas and dust located within the constellation Monoceres, or the Unicorn.

The earth developed from a planetary embryo in the solar nebula into the third planet of our solar system.

The space flight graphics are gorgeous with nebula, stars, and space debris all about.

On the left is M97 in the constellation Ursa Major, also known in the northern hemisphere as the Owl Nebula.

They showed that the Andromeda nebula lay far outside our Milky Way Galaxy.

And this object, this pulsar in the Crab Nebula is radiating copious amounts of x-rays, of gamma rays.

Explanation: The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier 's famous list of things which are not comets.

The Snake Nebula, silhouetted against ancient stars massed near the nucleus of our galaxy, which is about 25, 000 light years away.

And Chandra made a picture very recently of the Crab Nebula, of the pulsar, and that's what I want to show you now.

The 30 disks seen above are among 42 spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope during a multi year survey of the well-known nebula.

A dark stream of dust meanders through the brightly glowing gas of the Lagoon Nebula, about 5, 000 light-years from Earth.

Radiation from hot, young stars has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years.

The newly discovered example of a ring-shaped planetary nebula is about 15, 000 light-years distant.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of the Helix Nebula.

Explanation: What dark forms lurk in the mists of the Carina Nebula?

In the middle of this picture is a reflection nebula.

In optical and infrared images of the region, the highest temperature regions of the nebula just look like a big cavity.

Tenth, we see a fragment of the Trifid Nebula, a stellar cradle to 9000 light-years.

These new developments enable us to identify the first instance of symmetry breaking in the evolution from AGB to planetary nebula.

In the center of the above image lies Barnard 163, a nebula of molecular gas and dust so thick that visible light can't shinethrough it.

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That's what happened 4. 6 billion years ago, when the sun and the Earth emerged from a now-vanished interstellar nebula.

The model takes viewers through an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1, 500 light-years away.

Called the Cone Nebula because of its conical shape in ground-based images, this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region.

The Carina Nebula is a large bright nebula that surrounds several clusters of stars.