韋伯太空望遠鏡拍攝的貓爪星雲
Cat's Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope
發表日期：2025-07-21
星雲因其熟悉的形狀而聞名於世，就像貓會惹麻煩一樣。 不過，沒有哪隻貓能創造出天蠍座方向可見的巨大貓爪星雲。 貓爪星雲距離天蠍座 5700 光年，是一個較大分子云中的發射星雲。 它也被稱為熊爪星雲，星表編號為 NGC 6334 ，在過去的幾百萬年裡，這裡誕生了質量接近太陽十倍的恆星。圖為詹姆斯-韋伯太空望遠鏡（James Webb Space Telescope）最近釋出的一張用紅外光拍攝的貓爪星雲影像。 這個星雲的新細節有助於人們瞭解湍流分子云是如何將氣體轉化為恆星的。 探索你的宇宙隨機 APOD 生成器
原文：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 5,700 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula within a larger molecular cloud. 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 recently released image of the Cat's Paw taken in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope. This newly detailed view into the nebula helps provide insight for how turbulent molecular clouds turn gas into stars. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator
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