1. RETHINKING AN ASTRONOMICAL ICON.
- Author
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Cowen, Ron
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GASES , *STAR formation , *TELESCOPE maintenance & repair , *SPACE photography - Abstract
Discusses a photograph of dense gaseous pillars, remnants of a giant gas cloud, known as evaporating gas globules (EGG), which was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Way that ultraviolet light bombarding the pillars both hinders and fosters star birth; How the images were taken in visible light, which does not penetrate dust; Finding that few of the EGG contain stars.
- Published
- 2002
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