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Halloween Pictures: Ten Spooky Objects in Outer Space

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« on: October 30, 2011, 04:13:43 am »



Orion's Bat

Image courtesy ESO

Last March astronomers with the European Southern Observatory peered into a dark corner of the constellation Orion and snapped a new picture of a cosmic bat, the nebula NGC 1788.

Unlike nebulae that shine due to their own heated gases, this cloud gets its ghostly glow because its cold gas and dust are reflecting and scattering light from the young stars hidden inside.

This image, taken from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, combines three wavelengths of visible light to reveal the bat's bright face flanked by faint spreading wings.

Published October 27, 2011
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