Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1333
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NGC1333  Stellar nursery in Perseus, Carlos González
NGC1333  Stellar nursery in Perseus
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NGC1333 Stellar nursery in Perseus

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NGC1333 Stellar nursery in Perseus

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The constellation of Perseus has some extraordinary molecular clouds and areas of star formation, NGC 1333. This beautiful nebula contains hundreds of stars that are as young as a million years old, and is one of the nearest star forming regions to us. The youngest of these protostars create outflows that collide with the surrounding medium to create Herbig-Haro objects. NGC 1333 is known to contain at least 36 of these HH objects and many of them can be seen in the bright red emission regions within NGC 1333.

The blue nebulae in this image are areas of dust that are reflecting the light from the hot blue stars in front of the dust. 

Visible throughout this astrophoto is a portion of the large dusty Perseus OB2 molecular cloud. These clouds are an impressive dusty brown and are punctuated with regions of blue reflection nebulae as well.

RGB - 201' x 3' each, OSC camera QHY 294C

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NGC1333  Stellar nursery in Perseus, Carlos González