Taurus Molecular Cloud from B22 to LBN777 (Scott Denning)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 42 Tau · 44 Tau · 52 Tau) · 59 Tau) · IC 360 · The star 36 Tau · The star 41 Tau · The star 62 Tau · The star 95 Tau · The star Alkalbain I (φ Tau · The star Alkalbain II (χ Tau · The star p Tau · The star ψ Tau

Taurus Molecular Cloud from B22 to LBN777, Scott Denning

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Taurus Molecular Cloud from B22 to LBN777

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Taurus Molecular Cloud from B22 to LBN777

Yet another widefield of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, about half a field east of my recent M45 image.

This one covers from Barnard 22 to LBN777 "Baby Eagle." Might put these together as a mosaic, but I like this one in a different way -- dark and moody!

Samyang 135 @f/2.8 + ASI 2600mc + 10micron GM1000 unguided; 406x60s OSC
Jan 8-11 between bouts of clouds and snow flurries, very cold nights!

Giant molecular clouds are filthy with cruddy organic ice. They self-gravitate into filaments because gravity scales as inverse-square of that smaller "sideways" distance. The densest darkest dirtiest clouds are coldest, so these are star factories.

Gas flows along the filaments into star forges where it spins up into cryogenic disks whirling around protostars. Organic chemistry and conservation of vorticity have their way and pretty soon you've got pebbles, planetesimals, planets, plants, and people.

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