<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8e65d45b-244b-4d0e-af6e-d85f005d6a30/44547DEA-272C-472F-9A14-3D8F700E07E1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090828.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090828.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090828.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/506D00DB-ABA1-46A8-8E1A-9C8ED0F2F20F" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090828.html"><P> <B> Explanation: </B> Pillars of gas, dust, and young, hot stars fill the center of NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant <A href="http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/Cyberia/Bima/ GMC.html">molecular cloud</A> toward the northern <A href="http://www.astropix.com/HTML/E_SUM_N/CEPHEUSO.HTM">constellation Cepheus</A>, the glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and tantalizing shapes are highlighted in <A href="http://dg-imaging.astrodon.com/gallery/ display.cfm?imgID=197">this colorful skyscape</A>. The image includes data from both broadband and <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060324.html">narrowband</A> filters, mapping emission from atomic oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur into blue, green, and red hues. The atomic emission is <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051223.html">powered by</A> the energetic radiation from the hot stars, whose powerful winds and radiation also sculpt and erode the denser pillar shapes. Stars could still be forming <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020104.html">inside the pillars</A> by <A href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/ gravc.html#c1">gravitational collapse</A>, but as the pillars are eroded away, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from their reservoir of <A href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/ 44/image/a/">star stuff</A>. This field spans around 30 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 7822. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/44547DEA-272C-472F-9A14-3D8F700E07E1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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