esahubble_opo0036a December 6th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), George Herbig and Theodore Simon (University of Hawaii).
The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. Like a flashlight beam shining off the wall of a cave, the star is reflecting light off the surface of pitch black clouds of cold gas laced with dust. These are called reflection nebulae.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/opo0036a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
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