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N44
Composite image of ground-based [S II] image (white; taken at theCurtis Schmidt Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile) and ROSAT PSPC X-ray image (red).
  • Object Name
    Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
    N44C
  • Release Date
    May 9, 2002
  • Science Release
    Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze
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  • Credit
    Image Credit: R. Chris Smith (CTIO) and Y.-H. Chu (UICU)

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Gaseous Streamers from Nebula N44C Flutter in Stellar Breeze

Gaseous Streamers from Nebula N44C Flutter in Stellar Breeze

Resembling the hair in Botticelli's famous portrait of the birth of Venus , softly glowing filaments stream from a complex of hot young stars. This image of a nebula, known as N44C, comes from the archives of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It was taken with the Wide Field...

CTIO Image of N44

CTIO Image of N44

Ground-based H-alpha image of the entire N44 Complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud taken at the Curtis Schmidt Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile by R. Chris Smith.

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Mar 28, 2025
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