NASA·APOD每日天文一图2022.5.10 [超高清]

Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured here is a deep field image of the Cat's Paw Nebula in light emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. 

星云可能因其熟悉的形状而闻名，但是猫爪星云可能因陷入麻烦而闻名。还没有一只已知的猫能够创造出巨大的猫爪星云，可以在蝎子座看到（天蝎座。距离我们5500光年远，猫爪星云是一个红色发射星云，源于大量电离氢原子。另一个被称为熊爪星云，分类为NGC 6334，在过去的几百万年里，那里诞生了质量接近太阳质量十倍的恒星。图为猫爪星云发射光的深空图像通过氢、氧和硫的叠加。