Blowin in the Stellar Wind
This image of the Elephant Trunk nebula from NASA Wide-field Survey Explorer shows clouds of dust and gas being pushed and eroded by a massive star. The bright trunk of the nebula near the center is an especially dense cloud.
- Date
- 2011-06-13
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Blowin in the Stellar Wind" (2011-06-13). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14103Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 25076.
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