Astronomy Picture of the Day - Along the Taurus Molecular Cloud

NASA ^ | 23 Nov, 2023 | Image Credit & Copyright: Yuexiao Shen, Joe Hua

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: 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.

[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[MtnClimber]

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[doorgunner69]

Just look sat that pollution....

[Flaming Conservative]

Ever wonder why God made so many stars? Would the universe function just the same with fewer? They sure are beautiful.

[No name given]

Wow.

[No name given]

Amen 🙏🏻!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Probably to fill up all that empty space. Most of the universe is empty regions where you would not see a single star in the sky. Even the most power telescopes would only see dim, distant galaxies. The crowded areas are only at the very edges of these voids, where we happen to live. This gives the universe as a whole a spiderweb-like appearance.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_Void

[ETCM]

Ever wonder why God made so many stars? Would the universe function just the same with fewer? They sure are beautiful.

And not just the hundreds of billions of stars (and their orbiting planets) in our own galaxy, but hundreds of billions of other galaxies in God's universe. All spread out over infinite space. The universe is truly inspiring and amazing. And as you say, beautiful.

[Flaming Conservative]

Yes. Psalm 147:4 “He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.”

[AlaskaErik]

Looks like celestial diarrhea.

[blueunicorn6]

This reminds me of Hillary Clinton’s homemade spaghetti sauce.

[JustaTech]

Cosmic dust bunnies

[minnesota_bound]

In lower left. It looks like a cat face.

[BenLurkin]

“Mothra Star”

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-reveals-gargantuan-mothra-star-in-most-colorful-image-of-the-universe-ever-taken

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

When I click on your “NASA” link above it takes me to some other photo, not to the image in Post # 2. This has been happening for a few weeks and thought that it would pass but it keeps happening.

[MtnClimber]

I see what you are talking about. They recently changed how they are doing their IP addresses. The IP for yesterday’s APOD brings up today’s page. I will have to post from the Archives page to get the link to work properly after a day goes by.