Posted on 01/10/2025 5:23:30 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: An unassuming region in the constellation Taurus holds these dark and dusty nebulae. Scattered through the scene, stars in multiple star systems are forming within their natal Taurus molecular cloud complex some 450 light-years away. Millions of years young and still going through stellar adolescence, the stars are variable in brightness and in the late phases of their gravitational collapse. Known as T-Tauri class stars they tend to be faint and take on a yellowish hue in the image. One of the brightest T-Tauri stars in Taurus, V773 (aka HD283447) is near the center of the telescopic frame that spans over 1 degree. Toward the top is the dense, dark marking on the sky cataloged as Barnard 209.
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Thanks for posting and pinging!
I usually like them M.C. but this one not so much. You post what they give you!
Yes, I post what they give me. Sometimes they are not what I would pick.
Looks like someplace you don’t want to fly your starship. Give that a wide berth.
450 light years....
I was trying to put this distance into perspective.
The Orion Arm of the Milky Way is probably some 3,500 light-years wide. (quote from a source)
So that is roughly one tenth the width of our local arm.
Wow.
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