{"id":38305,"date":"2013-09-19T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=38305"},"modified":"2013-09-19T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:46:06","slug":"prawn-nebula-sharpest-picture-ever-taken-enormous-star-birthing-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/prawn-nebula-sharpest-picture-ever-taken-enormous-star-birthing-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Prawn Nebula — Sharpest Picture Ever Taken Of Enormous Star-Birthing Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Prawn Nebula — an enormous star-birthing nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius — has been beautifully captured in a new image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The striking new image is very likely the sharpest image ever taken of the stellar nursery — depicting in great detail, the very hot, gathering of new-born stars buried amongst the dust clouds that the nebula is composed of.<\/p>\n
The Prawn Nebula is located about 6000 light-years from the Earth, in the Scorpion constellation. The famous nebula is known, on a more formally level, as IC 4628. In visible light, the very hot stars burn a blue-white color, but they also emit a great deal of very intense radiation in other parts of the spectrum, especially in the ultraviolet.<\/p>\n