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Just as René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula.
Barnard 59 forms the mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula [1] and is the subject of this new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope.
The Pipe nebula nearly 700 light-years from Earth and home to a clutch of newly formed stars. The European Southern Observatory captures a new photo of the Pipe nebula.
There, the Pipe Nebula (Barnard 59, 65–67, and 78) spans a whopping 7°. With your naked eyes, you can see it cradling magnitude 3.3 Theta (θ) Ophiuchi to the northwest.
Barnard 72 is a dark nebula in the Ophiuchus constellation, about 5 light-years across, and approximately 650 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about 6 ...
Barnard 59 forms the mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula [1] and is the subject of this new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope. This strange and complex dark nebula lies ...
A telescope in Chile has captured a spectacular view of a pitch black cloud in deep space, a celestial home to several newborn stars hidden in a nebula named after a smoking apparatus.
Image: Pipe Nebula – Curious Dark Nebula Seen as Never Before by SpaceRef August 15, 2012. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...
This picture shows Barnard 59, part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula nearly 600-700 light-years from Earth. This new and very detailed image of what is known as a ...
Barnard 59 forms the mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula and is the subject of this new image. This strange and complex dark nebula lies about 600 to 700 light-years from Earth.
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