Thursday, April 17, 2014

APOD 4.4

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Photoed above is the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, a gas and dust clouded region within star formations that is seen to be taking on an interesting forms. An energetic star far from earth is consuming the dust of the globular towards the top of the image. In doing so, gasses and dusts are being pushed away from the star
forming the above dark cloud stretched across the picture. It is much larger than it appears with a width that covers over 10 full moons.

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