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What is Contagious Star Formation?
Recognize this nebula? Yeah…we’re talking about the Orion Nebula again. I know, we already took a tour through the Orion constellation in my last post…but there’s still more to cover about how stars come to life, and Orion is still the…
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Extinction and Reddening of Starlight
Take a wild guess: What do you think this image is showing you? If you said it looks like a giant black hole in space, I don’t blame you. I also don’t blame you if you thought it looks like…
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What is a Nebula Made of?
What you see here is the Trifid Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust in space. In my last post, we explored why it looks the way it does. We discovered that the pink hues of emission nebulae are caused…
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What is a Nebula?
What’s a nebula? Well…you’re looking at one. Okay, okay, I know. You want to know what that actually is. You want to know why it’s there. You want to know why there are colors in space…and why you’ve never noticed…
