The Cone Nebula

The Cone Nebula

• The Cone Nebula, 2500 light-years away, continues to image

•  Garchin, Germany: An image of the 'Cone Nebula', a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy. 

•  Way galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth, has been released.

•  The mysterious existence of the dark and cloudy nebula can be seen in this image taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) earlier this year.

• The seven-light-year-long Cone Nebula is part of a region called NGC 2264 and was first discovered by astronomer William Herschel in the 18th century.

• The unique appearance of the Cone Nebula is due to large clouds of cold gas and dust.  These elements are known to form new stars. 

• According to the European Space Observatory, the plume appears when massive, newly forming blue-bright stars emit winds and intense ultraviolet rays that blow material away from the sides of the stars.

• ESO said that as this material is pushed away, the gas and dust escaping from the new stars is compressed, creating dark, dark and elongated pillar-like shapes.

• Garchin, Germany: An image of the 'Cone Nebula', a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth, has been released.

• The mysterious existence of the dark and cloudy nebula can be seen in this image taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) earlier this year.

• The seven-light-year-long Cone Nebula is part of a region called NGC 2264 and was first discovered by astronomer William Herschel in the 18th century.

• The unique appearance of the Cone Nebula is due to large clouds of cold gas and dust.  These elements are known to form new stars.

• According to the European Space Observatory, the plume appears when massive, newly forming blue-bright stars emit winds and intense ultraviolet rays that blow material away from the sides of the stars.

• ESO said that as this material is pushed away, the gas and dust escaping from the new stars is compressed, creating dark, dark and elongated pillar-like shapes.