The stellar halo is debris that surrounds our familiar white swirl of stars.
Of course, the clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15.
Besides supernova remnants, these shock models are important in understanding a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, ranging from winds in newly-formed stars to cataclysmic stellar outbursts.
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Now an international team of astronomers says you can blame gusts of stellar wind.
These 15 stellar examples show just how creative logo makers can be with barely more than a sans-serif font and some basic shapes.
By 2011 debris in the center of the ring, which is about a light-year in diameter, was blazing more intensely as the supernova entered a new stage of stellar demise.
Collisions between the gas clouds may trigger a stellar baby boom.
It is the fate of the spiral galaxy to be pulled like taffy and then swallowed by the pair of elliptical galaxies, which will trigger a firestorm of new stellar creation.
The Hubble Space Telescope provided an image of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula.
Once again, a stellar cast has been assembled, headed by glorious German soprano Dagmar Schellenberger, the current reigning Marschallin at the Vienna State Opera, and featuring a show-stopping guest appearance by Hong Kong's own operatic star Warren Mok.
Emile Hirsch’s stellar turn as a bent soul on a journey in Into The Wild makes him the frontrunner for Apocalypse Now‘s main character.
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape.
The star then stretches apart (middle yellow blob) and eventually breaks into stellar crumbs, some of which swirl into the black hole (cloudy ring at right).
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Quasar is short for quasi-stellar radio source.
