Fly Through the Sh2-46 Nebula in Serpens

Scientists have used the Hubble Space Telescope to image a dense molecular cloud called CB 130-3, located in the constellation of Serpens. The article Hubble Telescope Captures Extremely Dense Molecular Cloud in the Constellation of Serpens comes from the website Everything that matters.

Fly Through the Sh2-46 Nebula in Serpens

Fly Through the Sh2-46 Nebula in Serpens | ESOThis video takes us on a journey through the Sh2-46 nebula, located 6,000 light years away, and where not everything is what it seems. The red hues come from hydrogen atoms ionized by the bright blue star at the center of the nebula, but this star may have actually been born elsewhere. The image was taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Obser…