NGC 1333 :英仙座中的恆星搖籃
NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus

來源:Robert Eder|發表日期:2026-01-30
NGC 1333 在可見光下呈現為反射星雲,其特徵是星際塵埃反射的藍調星光。這片星雲距地球僅 1000 光年,位於英雄座方向,坐落在巨大星形成分子云的邊緣。 這張望遠鏡特寫覆蓋了超過兩個滿月的天體範圍,按NGC 1333 的測算距離換算約 15 光年。影像清晰呈現了塵埃區域的細節,並捕捉到赫比格-哈羅天體、噴流以及新星噴射出的激波發光氣體所形成的鮮明紅色發射特徵。 事實上,NGC 1333 中存在數百顆年齡不足百萬年的恆星,其中多數仍被瀰漫的星際塵埃遮蔽,無法被光學望遠鏡觀測。這種混沌環境或許與 45 億年前太陽誕生的星際空間極為相似。
原文:NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar 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 telescopic close-up spans over 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 telltale hints of contrasty 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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