Space Nebula

Originally the term was used to describe any diffused astronomical object including galaxies beyond the milky way.

Space nebula. The hubble space telescope has caught the most detailed view of the crab nebula in one of the largest images ever assembed by the space based observatory. Molecular clouds also known as hii regions because they are mainly hydrogen dark nebulae supernova remnants and planetary nebulae. A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space. For this reason some nebulae are called star nurseries. A nebula latin for cloud or fog.

Some nebulae more than one nebula come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star such as a supernova. Other nebulae are regions where new stars are beginning to form. Nebulae nebulæ or nebulas is an interstellar cloud of dust hydrogen helium and other ionized gases.

The fabulous lives of nebulas this vivid view of the crab nebula combines an infrared view from esa s herschel space observatory with an optical image from the archives of the nasa esa hubble space.