韦伯太空望远镜拍摄的猫爪星云
(原标题: Cat's Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope)
2025-07-21
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星云因其熟悉的形状而闻名，就像猫因惹麻烦而闻名一样。尽管如此，没有任何已知的猫科动物能够创造出朝向天蝎座的巨大的猫爪星云。在5700光年远的地方，猫爪是一个更大的分子云中的发射星云。也被称为熊爪星云，编目为NGC 6334，在过去的几百万年里，那里诞生了质量几乎是太阳十倍的恒星。这是一张最近发布的猫爪的照片，由詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜在红外线下拍摄。这张星云的最新详细视图有助于我们了解湍流分子云是如何将气体变成恒星的。探索你的宇宙：随机APOD生成器
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Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). At 5,700 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula within a larger molecular cloud. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured here is a recently released image of the Cat's Paw taken in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope. This newly detailed view into the nebula helps provide insight for how turbulent molecular clouds turn gas into stars. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator