PIX4618628: Nebulae around the cluster NGC 2264 - The Cone nebula at the top is an H II region located about 2600 light years away from Earth. The bright star in the center is S Monocerotis, a star of magnitude 4.7. Image obtained by the Oschin telescope of Mount Palomar through several filters and composed / Bridgeman Images
PIX4618963: Nebula NGC 3372 in the Carene - The nebula of the Carene is located about 7000 light years from the Earth. It is home to many hot stars, including the star Eta Carinae (on the left, the brightest star in the picture). In the right center, a cluster of young stars, Trumpler 14. Image made with the 1.5m Danish telescope of La Silla in Chile / Bridgeman Images
PIX4619455: Nebula Trifide (M20) in the constellation Sagittarius. - Nebula Trifide (M20) in the constellation Sagittarius. - View of the Nebula Trifide (M20/ngc 6514) located in the constellation Sagittarius between 5000 and 10,000 years - light of Earth. Composite image, 9 hours of installation / Bridgeman Images
PIX4620159: Centre de la nebula Omega (M17) by HST - Center of the Omega Nebula, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colorful blankets of glowing gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud. This picture was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. The region of the nebula shown in this photograph is about 3,500 times wider than our solar system. The area represents about 60 percent of the total view captured by ACS. The nebula, also called M17 and the Swan Nebula, resides 5,500 light - years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Like its famous cousin in Orion, the Swan Nebula is illuminated by ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars, located just beyond the upper right corner of the image. Each star is about six times hotter and 30 times more massive than the Sun. The powerful radiation from these stars evaporates and erodes the dense cloud of cold gas within which the stars formed. The blistered walls of the hollow cloud shine primarily in the blue, green, and red light emitted by excited atoms of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. Particularly striking is the rose - like feature, seen to the right of center, which glows in the red light emitted by hydrogen and sulfur. ACS made this observation on April 1 and 2, 2002. The color image is constructed from four separate images taken in these filters: blue, near infrared, hydrogen alpha, and doubly ionized oxygen / Bridgeman Images
PCT4285928: France, Herault (34), Languedoc-Roussillon (Languedoc Roussillon): Montpellier, Antigone district, hotel de region (regional council) - banks of the Lez, 201 avenue de la Pompignane, architect Ricardo Bofill, realisation 1988 - pine, pine, south of France, clouds - Photo Patrice Cartier -, Bofill, Ricardo (b.1939) / Bridgeman Images