The enchanting beauty of the nebula

The space nebula brings many surprises. It seems that in the depths of the universe hidden invisible artists create great masterpieces - strange shapes over time.

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For example, astronomers discovered a nebula of NGC 5189 like an S-shaped planet or dollar sign. Recently NASA's 'Spitzer' telescope has discovered a nebula in the center of the strange double-helix DNA.

The nebula has a running chicken image

Recently, the Southern European observatory discovered nebula IC 2944 , it was immediately nicknamed 'Chicken run '. It 'runs' in the constellation Centaurus . This nebula is located 6500 light-years from Earth. According to newsland.ru it is a hydrogen cloud with a diameter of 70 light years, inside it is a lot of young stars. It is the radiation of these stars that emits light of the nebula.

In the background of red light see the so-called droplets (sometimes called Bok droplets ), it is quite dark and thickly concentrated and quite visible on a lighter background than IC 2944. It is thought to be thick gas accumulation. solid.

In the future the formation of nebulae will reduce the influence of cosmic winds or reduce the influence of gravity, leading to the creation of new stars . Drops in the IC 2944 nebula were discovered by David Thakeray in 1950, and were first taken with the 1999 'Hubble' telescope.

Why do these nebulae have a strange configuration with complex symmetry? Professor Sung Gou of Taiwan University gave one of many theories. According to Gou, the "gap" in dense dust and gas clouds will determine the shape of asymmetric nebulae that can surround small white stars. After these holes emit ultraviolet light like a ray, it appears in the developing gas membrane and makes it glow then making the nebula have the most different forms.

The lifespan of these nebulae is short - 'only' about ten thousand light years, while the life of the original stars is several billion light-years. Today in our galaxy there are about 1500 planetary nebulae. In addition to the familiar nebulae of ancient astrologers in the form of 'rings', 'grass', 'snails' , today thanks to the Hubble space telescope, objects are known in the form of the most exotic 'ant', 'cat eye', 'hourglass' , even 'Eskimo'.