SOFIA Helps Reveal Why Cosmic Bubbles Are Leaking Out Into Space
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The background image shows the Orion nebula taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Orion’s Veil shell is toward the center of this image, and the callout from this area shows a map of ionized carbon emission from the bubble measured by SOFIA. White circles in the callout indicate the position and size of shock-accelerated ionized carbon-emitting gas, which affect the morphology of the shell.
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Orion nebula: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team; Callout: NASA/SOFIA/Kavak et al.
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SCI2023_0001
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SOFIA Helps Reveal Why Cosmic Bubbles Are Leaking Out Into Space
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