(by Evan Leith)
NASA’s Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe by James Webb Space Telescope
Whirlpool Galaxy M51a was the very first galaxy classified as a spiral galaxy.
Galaxy Collisions Arp 140,143 © Hubble
Nebula is mostly hydrogen gas, and a small amount of metals (elements above helium) which tend to be covered as "Dust", but it's the dust that best reflect the light of the stars, and as the largest and most energetic of them are blue, you get these areas of blue haze. Hydrogen more often glows red when bombarded by UV light, the two colours together quite magical.
The area has a number of NGC objects 6726,6727,6729 but born of the same huge molecular cloud.
Our Milky Way has many such areas full of star birth, and as blue giants are not long lived, supernova and star death too.
Rho Ophiuchi
Apollo 11 Launch
The dancer in Dorado
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