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- #05
- Very patchy - there are dense clouds as well as large zones
of low density, hot gas.
- #07
- An emission nebula is a warmish cloud of gas that manages to
have a significant optical glow.
- #12
- These are cold and rather dense clouds of gas that also have
a relatively large amount of dust in them. They are ``dark''
in the sense that (a) they tend to block optical light from behind them
and (b) they do not glow much in the optical themselves.
Rico Ignace
2004-09-10