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A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery if star formation is occurring within, ... 1951. Using the radio telescope at the Kootwijk Observatory, ...
Barnard 68 is a molecular cloud, dark absorption nebula or Bok globule, towards the southern constellation Ophiuchus and well within the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of about 125 parsecs (407 light-years). [2] It is both close and dense enough that stars behind it cannot be seen from Earth.
The Taurus molecular cloud (TMC-1) is an interstellar molecular cloud in the constellations Taurus and Auriga. This cloud hosts a stellar nursery containing hundreds of newly formed stars. [2] The Taurus molecular cloud is only 140 pc (430 ly) away from Earth, making it possibly the nearest large star formation region.
Orion molecular cloud complex (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Molecular clouds" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
NGC 6729 (also known as Caldwell 68) is a reflection/emission nebula of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud in the constellation Corona Australis. It was discovered by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt in 1861. [1] This fan-shaped nebula opens from the star R Coronae Australis toward the star T CrA to the south-east.
The cloud is sometimes extended with an eastern part, [18] and together with the distinctively long Dark Doodad Nebula (or Musca nebula) to the north the complex is called the Musca-Chamaeleonis Molecular Cloud. [19] Two foreground associations are found near the Chamaeleon dark clouds.
A new study proposes that the dinosaurs were killed off due to severe global cooling caused when the Earth passed through a ‘giant molecular cloud.’
The molecular cloud at these wavelengths is traced by emission from warm dust in the clouds, allowing the structure of the clouds to be probed. Wavelet analysis of the molecular clouds in the approximately 11 square degree Herschel field of view breaks up the clouds into numerous filaments, mostly in and around the Westerhout 40 region. [20]