Gaseous nebulae as a research area encompasses the observational, theoretical, and numerical study of ionized, atomic, and molecular gas clouds in interstellar and circumstellar environments, focusing on their physical conditions, chemical composition, and dynamical evolution. Research addresses radiative transfer, emission-line diagnostics, photoionization and shock-excitation mechanisms, and the impact of stellar feedback from massive stars and supernovae on nebular structure. It also investigates nebulae as laboratories for plasma physics, dust–gas interactions, and nucleosynthesis yields, and as probes of galactic structure, star-formation processes, and the interstellar medium across different metallicities and cosmic epochs.
Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades: The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of astrophysicists at the Institute for ...
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In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery displays a towering spire of ...
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The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very ...
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the mid-infrared band. Results of the new observations, published Feb. 28 on the arXiv pre-print ...
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently photographed—supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the sun that ...
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An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night sky's most iconic celestial objects.
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Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a "flame-throwing guitar" has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA's ...
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For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark ...
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