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Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze

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May 09, 2002
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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...

N44C is the designation for a region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere. N44C is part of the larger N44 complex, which includes young, hot, massive stars, nebulae, and a "superbubble" blown out by multiple supernova explosions.

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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.

N44

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).

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Claire Andreoli
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claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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Image: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA);
Acknowledgment: D. Garnett (University of Arizona)

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