The nebula is classified as both a reflection nebula, as it is reflecting the light of a nearby star — and as an emission nebula, as it releases radiation. Both effects are caused by the ...

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This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

NGC 7129 is a reflection nebula (Image Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona). As we continue to break new ground in the field of cosmology, the importance of carefully ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

This reflection nebula, located about 1200 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Carina (the keel), is a double-lobed, or bipolar, cloud of gas and dust created and illuminated by ...

The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula surrounding a magnitude 7.4 star, SAO 19158, in the constellation Cepheus. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

High at northern latitudes lies a spectacular and unique nebula you should observe if you're not already familiar with it. The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula in Cepheus, not ...

This is a reflection nebula in that it consists largely of clouds of interstellar gas that reflect the light of nearby stars. The nebula is relatively close to Earth, as celestial objects go, at ...

The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American ...