Sharpless 29 iPhone Case T-shirts Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua

Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen

this Herbig–Haro object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex

Sharpless 29 iPhone Case T-shirts Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/JoshuaThe OmegaCAM imager on ESOs VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula. Credit: ESO