Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Mar 27 2019 03:01:46 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 March 27 [2] NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Steve Milne [4] , Barry Wilson [5] - Processing: Steve Milne Explanation: NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula [6] , dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus [7] , it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming [8] molecular cloud. This striking close-up [9] spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from Herbig-Haro [10] objects, jets and shocked glowing gas [11] emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes [12] by the pervasive stardust [13] . The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Tomorrow's picture: Gaia stars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [14] | Archive [15] | Submissions [16] | Index [17] | Search [18] | Calendar [19] | RSS [20] | Education [21] | About APOD [22] | Discuss [23] | > [24] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [25] (MTU [26] ) & Jerry Bonnell [27] (UMCP [28] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [29] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [30] A service of: ASD [31] at NASA [32] / GSFC [33] & Michigan Tech. U. [34] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1903/A_NGC1333_APOD.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.astrobin.com/users/gnomus/ [5] https://www.astrobin.com/users/Barry-Wilson/ [6] http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cms/astro/cosmos/R/ Reflection+Nebula [7] http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/per/index.html [8] http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/research/ overview.html [9] http://www.astrobin.com/384124/B/?nc=user [10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Herbig-Haro_object#Discovery_and_history_of_observations [11] ap140204.html [12] http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/ 224-ssc2005-24-Beautiful-Chaos-of-Star-Birth [13] ap071129.html [14] ap190326.html [15] archivepix.html [16] lib/apsubmit2015.html [17] lib/aptree.html [18] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [19] calendar/allyears.html [20] /apod.rss [21] lib/edlinks.html [22] lib/about_apod.html [23] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190327 [24] ap190328.html [25] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [26] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [27] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [28] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [29] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [30] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [31] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [32] https://www.nasa.gov/ [33] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [34] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .