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Astronomy 17 May 2024
This crop of the nebula highlights Bok globules at top center — dense ...
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NOAA says there

The Daily Mail 13 May 2024
Rather these strange formations are a subclass of dark nebulae known as Bok globules – dense clouds of cosmic dust and gas surrounded by hot, ionized material ... small by the standard of Bok globules.
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Dark Energy Camera captures the gorgeous ‘God’s Hand’ globule

Digital Trends 10 May 2024
This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule nicknamed ‘God’s Hand... Technically known as CG 4, this cometry globule is in fact on the smaller size for membership in a group called Bok globules.
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Telescope images reveal 'cloudy, ominous structure' known as 'God's Hand' in Milky Way

Usatoday 09 May 2024
Cometary globules are a type of dark nebula – interstellar clouds containing a high concentration of dust – known as Bok globules ... Its tail, or arm, stretches another 8 light years – making CG 4 a comparatively small Bok globule.
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A nebula that extends its hand into space

Phys Dot Org 08 May 2024
CG 4 is called a cometary globule because of its appearance ... The globule is surrounded by a diffuse red glow, emissions from ionized hydrogen ... They're a sub-class of objects called Bok globules, after astronomer Bart Bok, who discovered them.
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Cosmic ‘God’s Hand’ appears to reach across the universe in new telescope image

CNN 08 May 2024
The Dark Energy Camera captured a stunning image of “God’s Hand,” a cometary globule 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Puppis constellation ... Cometary globules are a type of Bok globule, or dark nebula.
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God’s Hand Or Giant Worm? Dark Energy Camera Spots Cometary Globule In Space

IFL Science 07 May 2024
Cometary globules have nothing to do with comets ... Cometary globules are a special type of Bok Globules that have been known since 1976 ... The light of those stars is not only ionizing the hydrogen, but it is also sculpting the cometary globule.
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You’ll Need all the Internet to Download the Full Resolution of this New Running Chicken ...

Universe Today 02 Jan 2024
The Running Chicken Nebula, also called IC 2944, also contains IC 2948, the brightest part of the Chicken, as well as several Bok Globules and smaller nebulae ... This zoomed-in image shows Bok globules in the lower left and upper right.
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1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Of The Running Chicken Nebula Is Astounding

IFL Science 21 Dec 2023
The result is this 1.5-billion-pixel image that details the many regions of the nebula. Advertisement ... CASU ... If you zoom in on the full image, you can see baby stars just born from the nebula, as well as Bok globules, dark regions of dense gas and dust.
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The Running Chicken Nebula shimmers in new ESO image

Popular Science 21 Dec 2023
ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement ... Some parts of the nebula called Bok globules can actually withstand the fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation. These globules can be seen as dark, small, dense pockets of gas and dust throughout the image ... .
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New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail

Phys Dot Org 21 Dec 2023
The wispy pastel contours are ethereal plumes of gas and dust ... Some regions of the nebula, known as Bok globules, can withstand the fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation pervading this region ... Provided by ESO. Citation ... ....
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New observations confirm important step in star formation

Phys Dot Org 19 Oct 2023
New observations have confirmed a key step in the process of star formation ... But there is a complication ... Next steps ... R. Launhardt et al, A resolved rotating disk wind from a young T Tauri star in the Bok globule CB 26, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2023).
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Webb Snaps Highly Detailed Infrared Image of Actively Forming Stars

Technology Org 30 Jul 2023
Young are rambunctious! ... To find them, trace the bright pink and red until you hit the center. The stars are within the orange-white splotch ... Image credit ... This is a region of dense dust and gas, known both as a and more formally as a Bok globule ... ....
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JWST Pierces Through a Thick Nebula to Reveal Newly Forming Binary Stars

Universe Today 28 Jul 2023
But, ever since the advent of infrared astronomy, astronomers have been able to lift that veil ... The scale bar is labeled in arcminutes ... HH objects usually are associated with so-called H II regions and often lie near dark clouds called Bok globules ... .
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Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula

Universe Today 06 Feb 2023
The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is the brightest star-forming region in our part of the galaxy ... This image comes from two Hubble observing programs aimed at 30 Doradus ... They’ve studied the dark lanes of thick dust and Bok globules ... .

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