Space Nebula

The splendor of orion.

Space nebula. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space. The fabulous lives of nebulas this vivid view of the crab nebula combines an infrared view from esa s herschel space observatory with an optical image from the archives of the nasa esa hubble space. Every nebula contains hydrogen and helium plus a mixture of other gases. A nebula latin for cloud or fog.

Nebulae nebulæ or nebulas is an interstellar cloud of dust hydrogen helium and other ionized gases. Molecular clouds also known as hii regions because they are mainly hydrogen dark nebulae supernova remnants and planetary nebulae. Some nebulae more than one nebula come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star such as a supernova. There are several types of nebulae plural of nebula.

A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. The hubble space telescope has caught the most detailed view of the crab nebula in one of the largest images ever assembed by the space based observatory.