Clouds form from Sh2-284 ‘smiling cat’
About 15,000 light-years from Earth, the sh2-284 nebula produces orange and red clouds that, oddly enough, look like a grinning kitten when seen from Earth.
nebula Sh2-284 A star-forming region in a constellation unicorn – It gave birth to bright and powerful stars, emitting winds and radiation with great force.
By the way, its radiation is strong enough to ionize the hydrogen in the nebula 150 light-years wideproducing bright orange clouds that, oddly, resemble A Smiling kitten when viewed from the ground.
“Located in the center of the brightest part of the nebula – just below ‘Cat’s Nose’ – is a group of young stars known as 25- Tabletswhich produce large amounts of radiation and strong winds,” explain astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), according to Science news.
If you can’t see the cats in the image above, maybe the VLT Survey Telescope of Paranal Observatory in Chile can help.
Despite its huge distance from 15 thousand light yearsThe Chilean telescope has now been able to image the natural beauty of the nebula using 256 million pixels Optimized for wide field photography.
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