APOD 2.8

Blue is my favorite color, how about you? Imaged here are cosmic dust clouds that are very energetic. They are around 500 light years away from Corona Australis. Corona Australis means southern Crown and happens to be one of my favorite constellations. Unfortunately these dust clouds block the light of other stars. The blue is created from the refection of the young hot stars light off the dust clouds. Towards the left a smaller yellow nebula is near a young variable star. Just underneath that glowing arcs are shocked from newborn stars creating Herbig-Haro objects. It spans approx 9 light years.