How Can Even The Stones Remain Silent

Jan 05 2012 ∞
A bright red dust cloud marks the center of a “wreath” of green interstellar material in a new picture from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, space telescope. Officially known as Barnard 3, the festive-looking nebula is a star-forming region about a thousand light-years away. A bright star in the center of the red cloud likely shaped the nebula and now causes it to glow in infrared. Bluish dots scattered throughout the frame are stars in front of or behind the nebula. Freaking. Space. Man.

A bright red dust cloud marks the center of a “wreath” of green interstellar material in a new picture from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, space telescope. Officially known as Barnard 3, the festive-looking nebula is a star-forming region about a thousand light-years away.

A bright star in the center of the red cloud likely shaped the nebula and now causes it to glow in infrared. Bluish dots scattered throughout the frame are stars in front of or behind the nebula.

Freaking. Space. Man.

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