Excerpts from Giant Cometary Globule CG 4 Image
This excerpt shows a close-up of CG 4 seemingly about to devour the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 257-19 (PGC 21338). But in reality, this galaxy is more than a hundred million light-years beyond CG 4 and only appears to be close because of a chance alignment.
Near the head of the cometary globule are two young stellar objects (YSOs). YSOs are stars in their early stage of evolution, before they become main-sequence stars, that often exhibit characteristics such as jets, bipolar outflows, protoplanetary discs, and other indicators of a new star being born.
Credit:CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2412b |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | May 6, 2024, 1:36 p.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2412 |
Size: | 6393 x 5558 px |
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