NASA shares stunning image of 'Snowman Nebula' taken by Hubble Telescope; See pic

Despite Hubble telescope being inactive for past few days, NASA has kept its legacy alive by sharing marvellous ims snapped from various corners of universe. Currently, on a Nebula vember run, NASA has shared ar im of a glittering nebula that resembles a 'swman' hovering in . According to ncy, this new im depicts an emission nebula as clouds of dust here emit ir own light after drawing energy from nearby stars.

"It’s a swman! This newly released Hubble im of Swman Nebula is an example of an emission nebula, which is a cloud of gas that’s become so charged by energy of nearby massive stars that it glows with its own light (sic)", said Hubble in a tweet.

A 'swman' 6,000 light-years away

Residing in  constellation Puppis in sourn sky, Swman nebula is about 6,000 light-years away from Earth, revealed NASA in its statement. This class of nebulae is diffused clouds of gas that have become so charged by energy of nearby massive stars that y glow with ir own light. ncy explained that radiations emerging from such stars strip electrons from nebula’s hydrogen atoms in a process called ionisation. It is this process of ionisation that makes nebula emit energy in form of light and glow.

"From a telescope on Earth, Swman looks a bit like a dual-lobed ball of gas, but this Hubble Telescope im captures details of sweeping curves of bright gas and dark kts of dust in a small section of nebula", NASA said in its statement. This swman in im, also called Sharpless 2-302, was captured as part of a survey of massive- and intermediate-size “protostars,” or newly forming stars. astromers were able to capture it using  infrared sensitivity of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to look for hydrogen ionized by ultraviolet light from protostars, jets from stars, and or features.

Meanwhile, more ims of breathtaking nebulae are awaited as Nebula vember month isn't over yet. Yesterday NASA had released ar im of a disintegrating Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 star in a brilliant Hubble im. Take a look.

Im: Twitter/@NASAHubble