没办法,这个Sharpless与M 表、NGC 表一样,我不懂,但翻译者也没有谁把它简化为S 308的。
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
2009 April 23
Sharpless 308
Credit &Copyright: Don Goldman
Explanation:
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star,this cosmic bubble is huge.Cataloged asSharpless 308it lies some 5,200 light-years awayin the constellationCanis Majorand covers over 2/3 degree on the sky(compared with 1/2 degree for the Full Moon).That correspondsto a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimateddistance.The massive star itself, aWolf-Rayet star,is the bright blueone near the center of the nebula.Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun andare thought to be in a brief,pre-supernova phase of massive starevolution.Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shapednebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlierphase of evolution.The windblown nebula has an age ofabout 70,000 years.Relatively faint emission captured in the expansive imageis dominated by the glow of ionized oxygen atomsmapped to bluish hues. |
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