Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured here is a deep field image of the Cat's Paw Nebula in light emitted by hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.?

星云可能因其熟悉的形狀而聞名，但是貓爪星云可能因陷入麻煩而聞名。還沒有一只已知的貓能夠創(chuàng)造出巨大的貓爪星云，可以在蝎子座看到（天蝎座。距離我們5500光年遠(yuǎn)，貓爪星云是一個紅色發(fā)射星云，源于大量電離氫原子。另一個被稱為熊爪星云，分類為NGC 6334，在過去的幾百萬年里，那里誕生了質(zhì)量接近太陽質(zhì)量十倍的恒星。圖為貓爪星云發(fā)射光的深空圖像通過氫、氧和硫的疊加。