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Henize 206() is a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.〔 "NASA Creates Portrait of Life and Death in the Universe", NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, March 8, 2004, webpage: (JPL-80 ) (NASA/JPL public domain webpage). 〕 This luminous cloud of gas and dust houses a cluster of newborn stars. Although Henize 206 was first catalogued in the 1950s, it was reported in NASA press releases in March 2004, for showing several example images generated from the various infrared cameras on the Spitzer Space Telescope launched in August 2003.〔 ==Photos== The nebula, Henize 206, and the scattered remnants of the exploding star that created it,〔 are pictured in detail in images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (''see image below''). Henize 206 lies in a satellite galaxy outside the Milky Way galaxy, nearly 163,000 light-years away, called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The nebula is home to hundreds and possibly thousands of stars, ranging in age from two to 10 million years old.〔 provide a detailed snapshot〔 of this universal phenomenon of star formation. By imaging Henize 206 in infrared wavelengths, Spitzer was able to see through blankets of dust that dominate visible light views. The image was converted into a conventional photo by reassigning visible colors to the infrared data. The resulting false-color image shows embedded young stars as bright white spots, with the surrounding gas and dust in blue, green and red. Also shown, in the nebula image, is a ring of green gas, which indicates the wake of the ancient supernova's explosion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henize 206」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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