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                                2019 March 27
                                      [2]
                    NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
      Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Steve Milne [4] , Barry Wilson [5]  -
                            Processing: Steve Milne

Explanation: NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula [6] ,
dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar
dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus
[7] , it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming [8]  molecular cloud. This
striking close-up [9]  spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15
light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the
dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from
Herbig-Haro [10] objects, jets and shocked glowing gas [11]  emanating from
recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than
a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes [12]  by the
pervasive stardust [13] . The chaotic environment may be similar to one in
which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago.

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