Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2016 August 29 
Posted on 08/29/2016 5:48:54 AM PDT by ThomasMore
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2016 August 29
Explanation: Young suns still lie within dusty NGC 7129, some 3,000 light-years away toward the royal constellation Cepheus. While these stars are at a relatively tender age, only a few million years old, it is likely that our own Sun formed in a similar stellar nursery some five billion years ago. Most noticeable in the sharp image are the lovely bluish dust clouds that reflect the youthful starlight. But the compact, deep red crescent shapes are also markers of energetic, young stellar objects. Known as Herbig-Haro objects, their shape and color is characteristic of glowing hydrogen gas shocked by jets streaming away from newborn stars. Paler, extended filaments of reddish emission mingling with the bluish clouds are caused by dust grains effectively converting the invisible ultraviolet starlight to visible red light through photoluminesence...
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I agree. God is showing off His handywork. Humbling.
Psalm 147:4 KJV
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names................
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It is the fuel that lights every star and stars are the incubators of life. Virtually every element on the periodic table comes from the inside of a star. The iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the oxygen we breathe formed first in a star. God made the stars, God makes life.
Bump.
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