Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2021 November 11 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Michael Sherick Explanation: NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a [5]reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation [6]Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, [7]star-forming molecular cloud. This telescopic close-up 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 [8]Herbig-Haro objects, [9]jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still [10]hidden from optical telescopes by the [11]pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space __________________________________________________________________ [12]< | [13]Archive | [14]Submissions | [15]Index | [16]Search | [17]Calendar | [18]RSS | [19]Education | [20]About APOD | [21]Discuss | [22]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell ([26]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [27]Specific rights apply. [28]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [29]ASD at [30]NASA / [31]GSFC & [32]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2111/ngc1333_RGB-c2.jpg 3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 4. mailto:%20FirstnameLastname%20[at]%20yahoo%20[dot]%20com 5. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cms/astro/cosmos/R/Reflection+Nebula 6. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/per/index.html 7. http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/research/overview.html 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbig-Haro_object#Discovery_and_history_of_observations 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140204.html 10. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/224-ssc2005-24-Beautiful-Chaos-of-Star-Birth 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210318.html 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211110.html 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=211111 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211112.html 23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 26. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 28. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 29. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 30. https://www.nasa.gov/ 31. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 32. http://www.mtu.edu/