Cosmic dust and gas serve as the essential building blocks for the formation of stars and planets, playing a crucial role in our understanding of how galaxies develop.
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These NASA images are mostly of nebulae surrounded by cosmic dust and gas. As mentioned earlier, these clouds of gas and dust eventually form the building blocks of planetary systems.
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Let’s explore 5 captivating NASA images of cosmic dust and gas:
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This image of the Cone Nebula, situated 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, looks like a beast tossing its head back in a fiery red sea, but in reality, it's simply a pillar of gas and dust.
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NASA's Webb telescope captured this nebula surrounded by gas and dust, located nearly 960 light-years away from Earth.
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A complex nebula located around 170,000 light-years from Earth, is filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark dust lanes, and a multitude of stars of varying ages.
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The Orion Nebula, one of the most distant nebulae captured by the James Webb Telescope, displays gas and dust in darker red hues.
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A star-forming region, NGC 2467, displays a vast cloud of dust and gas, discovered in the nineteenth century and lies in the southern constellation of Puppis.