A NASA showed this Friday (14) the nebula that has been called Devil’s Tower, in the featured image of the day on its official website. See below.
The record, made by the person photographed by Martin Pughis part of the astronomical catalog of Rodgers, Campbell It is Whiteoakfrom 1960, and explores the RCW 85 emission region.
About 5,000 light years away, the phenomenon of hydrogen gas and dust is faint.
In total, it took 28 hours of exposure for the details of the nebula to be captured in the photograph.
Every day, NASA presents a different photograph of different parts of the universe, always accompanied by a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
“Suggesting dramatic forms in stellar nursery, where natal clouds of gas and dust are sculpted by energetic winds and radiation from newborn stars, the tantalizing nebula has been called the Devil’s Tower. This telescopic structure would span about a hundred light years at an estimated distance of RCW 85″, says the text from the American space agency.
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