Image Credit & Copyright: Al
Howard
Explanation:
NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish
hues characteristic of starlight reflected by dust. A mere 1,000 light-years
distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a
large, star-forming molecular cloud. This striking close-up view spans about
two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance
of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with hints of
contrasting red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas
emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of
stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes
by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in
which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago.
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