Look Into The Heart Of A Stellar Collision Zone
They call this the Swan nebula, but don’t let the serene nickname fool you. It’s a battlezone, where solar winds from super-massive stars collide, creating “bow shocks” like the wake of a speedboat. This new image, from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds erode thickets…
