🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Along the Taurus Molecular Cloud 🪐
The cosmic brush of star formation composed this interstellar canvas of emission, dust, and dark nebulae. A 5 degree wide telescopic mosaic, it frames a region found north of bright star Aldebaran on the sky, at an inner wall of the local bubble along the Taurus molecular cloud. At lower left, emission cataloged as Sh2-239 shows signs of embedded young stellar objects. The region's Herbig-Haro objects, nebulosities associated with newly born stars, are marked by tell-tale reddish jets of shocked hydrogen gas. Above and right T Tauri, the prototype of the class of T Tauri variable stars, is next to a yellowish nebula historically known as Hind's Variable Nebula (NGC 1555). T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young, less than a few million years old, sun-like stars still in the early stages of formation.
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Copyright: Yuexiao Shen 🔭
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| Name | Craft |
|---|---|
| Jasmin Moghbeli | ISS |
| Andreas Mogensen | ISS |
| Satoshi Furukawa | ISS |
| Konstantin Borisov | ISS |
| Oleg Kononenko | ISS |
| Nikolai Chub | ISS |
| Loral O'Hara | ISS |
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