Nebulae: Crash Course Astronomy #36
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Astronomers study a lot of gorgeous things, but nebulae might be the most breathtakingly beautiful of them all. Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in space. They can glow on their own or reflect light from nearby stars. When they glow it’s usually predominantly red from hydrogen and green from oxygen, and when they reflect and scatter light it’s from massive hot stars, so they look blue. Stars are born in some nebulae, and create new ones as they die. Some nebulae are small and dense, others can be dozens or hundreds of light years across. Crash Course Astronomy Poster: http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-astronomy-poster -- Table of Contents Nebulae Are Clouds of Gas And/Or Dust 0:42 They Can Emit Light Or Reflect It 1:20 Elements Change Their Glow 3:31 Nebulae Can Create Stars 5:28 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badastronomer Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse -- PHOTOS/VIDEOS Saturn https://www.flickr.com/photos/badastronomy/10328043663/sizes/o/in/photostream/ [credit: Photo by NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute / Gordan Ugarkovic] Carina Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0707/ [credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)] Crab Nebula http://sci.esa.int/herschel/53338-herschel-and-hubble-composite-image-of-the-crab-nebula/ [credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)] Carina Jets http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1007a/ [credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)] The Twin Jet Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1518a/ [credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA] Tycho's Supernova Remnant http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho/ [credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/K.Eriksen et al.; Optical: DSS] Ring Nebula's True Shape http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/13/image/a/ [credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and D. Thompson (Large Binocular Telescope Observatory)] 3D animation of the Orion nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/astro_bo/ [credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser] Stardust http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/images/science/idp-m.jpg [credit: NASA] From the Pleiades to the Hyades http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2011/11/06/from-the-Pleiades-to-the-Hyades.html [credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo] How to Become a Star http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0102a/ [credit: ESO] The Orion Nebula http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1103a/ [credit: ESO/Igor Chekalin] Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019b/ [credit: K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.) and NASA/ESA] PIA08656 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA08656_hires.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IRAS/H. McCallon] Edge-On Protoplanetary Disc in the Orion Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545h/ [credit: Mark McCaughrean (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy), C. Robert O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA/ESA] Hubble's sharpest image of the Orion Nebula with proplyd highlights https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0917ab/ [credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA), the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team and L. Ricci (ESO)] Young Stellar Disks in Infrared http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905b/ [credit: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA] The Eagle Nebula, M16 https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0725.html [credit: T.A.Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF)] Pillars of Creation http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/01/image/e/warn/ [credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)] Planetary Nebula HFG1 https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1110.html [credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)] Zooming in on the Horsehead Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1307c/ [credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); ESO] Orion, from Head to Toes http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2010/10/22/orion-from-Head-to-Toes.html [credit: Rogelio Andreo Bernal] Sifting through Dust near Orion’s Belt (mouseover comparison) http://www.eso.org/public/images/comparisons/eso1219a/ [credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2]
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Great Episode!
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Someone ate too many beans.
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so molecular clouds / giant molecular clouds and nebula are one and the same thing ?
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I win because Jupiter
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what happens if you were to touch a nebula
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I love space so much. <3 Thank you Phil!
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If interstellar dust has these properties, could the red shift blamed on the Doppler effect actually be a result of blue light being scattered more than red? Could the overall redness of incoming light be blamed, in full or in part, on the intermediate dust? I know it's probably not, I'm just curious.
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Thank you very much for making this video, Phil Plait and the rest of the crew at Crash Course Astronomy! The major three things I learned from this episode is that:
1. nebulae are very, very beautiful dust clouds and some can be seen by naked eye,
2. they glow, some due to reflecting light and others due to being hit by light emitted from a star, and that
3. these dust clouds are really, really sparse (not dense), containing about 1000 atoms per sq. m., but stand out in space do to they gigantic size.
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Can anyone explain how emission nebulae are formed in the first place?
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Damn all These nebulas have creepy eyes
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Hey I just saw frickin creepy eyes in the pillar nebula
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If our solar system were inside a nebula, would we be able to tell? How would it affect the Earth and Sun?
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phil always sit down ,does he wear pants under the table ?
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so this on how kirk could hide from khan right?
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So could you say that Stars are infinite?
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Question: the Pillars of Creation only have about a thousand years left before they're blasted apart...but they're also about a thousand light-years away; doesn't this mean they've most likely already been destroyed?
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Who would dislike this? Hur-dur-Earth-is-flat people? This is such a beautiful science.
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Love your enthusiasm. Thanks for the knowledge!
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Archaeology wins because rocks... Rocks are awesome
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No mention of Tarantula or Carina :(
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