沿着船帆分子脊的ngc2626
(原标题: NGC 2626 along the Vela Molecular Ridge)
2023-02-04
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在这张彩色的宇宙画布中，NGC 2626是银河系南部一个美丽、明亮的蓝色反射星云。它紧邻一片模糊的尘埃云，周围环绕着来自大H区RCW 27的红色氢辐射，它位于一个被称为船帆分子脊的尘埃分子云的复合体中。NGC 2626本身是一团星际尘埃云，反射着星云内可见的年轻热嵌星发出的蓝光。但是天文探测发现在恒星形成区域还有许多其他的年轻恒星和相关的星云。NGC 2626距离我们大约3200光年。在这个距离上，这个望远镜的视野将沿着船帆分子脊延伸约30光年。
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Centered in this colorful cosmic canvas, NGC 2626 is a beautiful, bright, blue reflection nebula in the southern Milky Way. Next to an obscuring dust cloud and surrounded by reddish hydrogen emission from large H II region RCW 27 it lies within a complex of dusty molecular clouds known as the Vela Molecular Ridge. NGC 2626 is itself a cloud of interstellar dust reflecting blue light from the young hot embedded star visible within the nebula. But astronomical explorations reveal many other young stars and associated nebulae in the star-forming region. NGC 2626 is about 3,200 light-years away. At that distance this telescopic field of view would span about 30 light-years along the Vela Molecular Ridge.
© Mike Selby