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Space Pictures This Week: Pink Nebula, Moon Map, More

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« on: November 19, 2011, 07:22:55 pm »



Hourglass Nebula

Image courtesy IAC

The hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 glows in a picture released by NASA on November 7 and taken by the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS in Spain's Canary Islands.

Located about 2,000 light-years away, this star-forming region is illuminated by a very young star—about a hundred thousand years old—whose mass is equivalent to that of 15 suns.

("'Soccer Ball' Nebula Discovered by Amateur Astronomer.")

Published November 18, 2011
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