Complex magnetic field structure of Cat's Paw Nebula

An international team of astronomers has investigated a nearby emission nebula and star-forming region dubbed the Cat's Paw Nebula as part of the B-field In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey.

Results of this study, presented in a paper published December 24 on arXiv.org, provide essential information about the structure of the object's complex magnetic field.

At a distance of some 4,240 light years away, the Cat's Paw Nebula (other designations: NGC 6334, Gum 64) is a high-mass star-forming complex that lies within the galactic plane.

The nebula has a form of a filamentary cloud structure spanning 1,000 light years and hosts several star-forming regions.

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Infrared image of the Cat's Paw Nebula obtained with NASA's Spitzer telescope.

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Zooming in on the Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae

nfrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. NGC 6334 is a vast region of star formation about 5500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.

The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy, some nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and most born in the last few million years.

Dragon wrote:An international team of astronomers has investigated a nearby emission nebula and star-forming region dubbed the Cat's Paw Nebula as part of the B-field In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey.

Results of this study, presented in a paper published December 24 on arXiv.org, provide essential information about the structure of the object's complex magnetic field.

At a distance of some 4,240 light years away, the Cat's Paw Nebula (other designations: NGC 6334, Gum 64) is a high-mass star-forming complex that lies within the galactic plane.

The nebula has a form of a filamentary cloud structure spanning 1,000 light years and hosts several star-forming regions.

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This right here is what heaven looks like

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Infrared image of the Cat's Paw Nebula obtained with NASA's Spitzer telescope.

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