Rosetta Nebula
by Benjamin Yeager
Title
Rosetta Nebula
Artist
Benjamin Yeager
Medium
Photograph - Color Photo
Description
Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows the Rosette nebula located within the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn.
This flower-shaped nebula, also known by the less romantic name NGC 2237, is a huge star-forming cloud of dust and gas in our Milky Way galaxy. Estimates of the nebula's distance vary from 4,500 to 5,000 light-years away.
Original image courtesy of NASA.
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June 14th, 2013
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