The Beauty Of Reflection Nebulae
When you’ve got a gas cloud in space that emits light, it’s only for one of two reasons: either it’s at high enough temperatures that its atoms are excited and it’s emitting its own light as the electrons fall in energy and recombine with nuclei, or it’s cool and neutral, and is reflecting light off of the brightest stars in its vicinity.
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