PIX4620084: Nebulas M16 and M17 in Sagittarius - Nebulas M16 and M17 in Sagittarius - The M16 star cluster is a cluster of young stars distant from 7000 years - light, formed about 2 million years ago in the Eagle nebula, IC 4703. The Omega nebula (M17/NGC 6618), on the right, is located at a distance of 5500 light years. Nebulas M16 (IC 4703) at left, and M17 (NGC 6618) at right in Sagittarius observed from Chile / Bridgeman Images
PIX4619134: Massive stars in the Carene - Massive stars in the Carina Nebula - Detail of the nebula of the Carene, located about 7500 years ago - light from Earth, obtained by the Hubble space telescope. The image shows down the image a cluster of stars named Trumpler 16 which contains two very massive stars, WR 25 at Tr16 - 244. The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16 - 244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16, at the bottom of the image. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light - years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. At the top of the image, a peculiar nebula with the shape of a “” defiant”” finger points towards WR25 and Tr16 - 244 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4618724: S star Monocerotis and nebula - Fox Fur nebula in Monoceros - The region to the right of the bright star S Monocerotis is called Fox Fur nebula. This region where gas mixes with interstellar dust is located above the Cone nebula, about 2600 light years from Earth. Image obtained with a 61 cm telescope, composite of several images. The region around the 4.7 magnitude star S Mon is a fascinating mixture of red fluorescent hydrogen and dark, obscuring dust lanes. Some dust patches are close enough to bright stars to reflect light from them; these appear blue for the same reason that the day - time sky is blue - because some of the interstellar particles preferentially scatter blue light. The dust is mixed with gas and this affects the appearance of the emission nebulae, giving some of the faintest a curious 'fox fur' texture in this photograph. S Mon is part of a young open cluster of stars named NGC 2264 located about 2600 light years away, just north of the Cone nebula. Image taken with a 24 - inch telescope / Bridgeman Images