30.05.10: The Faces of Gum 19.

(Credit: ESO/Sofia/Digitized Sky Survey).
   Take a look at the Nebula pictured above. This is the current visual state of affairs of the nebula known as Gum 19, 22,000 light-years distant in the southern constellation Vela. This rich star forming region is pictured in the Digitized Sky Survey above, and the seemingly non-descript Gum 19 Nebula [...]