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English: In this Picture of the Week, we take a deep plunge into the ocean of stars in the IC4701 nebula. This nebula is located in the Sagittarius constellation, and it is twice as wide as the full Moon in the sky. The energetic light from newly-born stars ionizes the hydrogen gas in the nebula, causing it to emit the intense reddish hue seen in this picture. The dark clouds in this image contain large amounts of interstellar dust, too dense for the light of the background stars to pierce through it.The IC4701 nebula is part of a rich and vast complex of dust and gas within which new stars spring to life. When stars are born, most of them are cooler, redder, and less massive than our own Sun. Hotter, more massive stars are much rarer, and they quickly burn through all their fuel and die. This makes these brilliant blue and massive stars, and their surrounding glowing gas, beacons of recent star formation. |
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Date | 6 March 2023 (upload date) | ||
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Author | ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit | ||
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Credit/Provider | ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit |
Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 6 March 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 23.4 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 09:10, 2 March 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 15:34, 11 August 2022 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:10, 2 March 2023 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:8d4a6d98-2c26-2c42-aac1-4b44b5d47bf3 |
Keywords | IC4701 |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, None, D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |