Black Widow Nebula Lying in wait in the constellation Circinus, a cloud of molecular gas takes the form of a deadly spider in an infrared picture from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Nicknamed the Black Widow Nebula, the cloud is teeming with clusters of massive young stars, seen as yellow specks in the center of this frame. Radiation from the stars is blowing the surrounding gas into two opposing bubbles, forming the bulbous body and spindly legs of the cosmic crawler. Via National Geographic: Ten Spooky Objects in Outer Space
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Black Widow Nebula

Lying in wait in the constellation Circinus, a cloud of molecular gas takes the form of a deadly spider in an infrared picture from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Nicknamed the Black Widow Nebula, the cloud is teeming with clusters of massive young stars, seen as yellow specks in the center of this frame. Radiation from the stars is blowing the surrounding gas into two opposing bubbles, forming the bulbous body and spindly legs of the cosmic crawler.

Via National Geographic: Ten Spooky Objects in Outer Space

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