Credit & Copyright: Stefan Steve Bemmerl & Team Wolfatorium (Hakos/Namibia)
Explanation:
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 5,500
light years
distant, Cat's
Paw is an
emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of
ionized
hydrogen atoms.
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 deep field image of the
Cat's Paw
Nebula in light emitted by
hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
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