Barnard 22 and the little flame (Prabhakaran)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: IC 2087

Barnard 22 and the little flame, Prabhakaran

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Barnard 22 and the little flame

The dark nebula Barnard 22 and the nested reflection nebula IC 2087 are both parts of the Taurus Molecular Cloud located approximately 430 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, IC 2087 (center) resembles the shape of a small core of flame hence its nickname "the little flame" seemingly lighting up the darker surroundings. The Taurus Molecular Cloud, or TMC-1, is smaller and less dense than Orion. The complex contains hundreds of solar masses of dust and gas and all sorts of complex organic molecules formed out of the soot of long-dead stars. It’s possible with infrared detectors and cameras to see a great number of star-forming activity in this zone, but capturing visual images of molecular clouds is not an easy task. Much of the Taurus cloud is cool and dark and barely visible at optical wavelengths. But this part of the sky has a rich tapestry of more distant stars, so some dark molecular clouds in TMC-1 stand out by blocking light from the background stars and appearing as unnerving patches of near nothingness. This image is particular because the reflection nebulae are blue but some of the nebulae here are orange

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