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The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus ...
The cloud, called a dark nebula, is so dense that the hot, bright, baby stars within are hidden from view – but hints of ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
In an awe-inspiring image recently released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Space Telescope has ...
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...
The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 times that of the sun. Astronomers have discovered a dense stellar ...
And “it is literally glowing in the dark,” she added. Identifying and studying clouds like Eos, particularly based on their hydrogen content, could reshape astronomers’ understanding of how ...
“The data showed glowing hydrogen molecules detected via fluorescence in the far-ultraviolet. This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” According to researchers, the cloud spans about 40 ...