Waterfall Nebula Is Cascading Cosmic Bliss.

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Behold the Waterfall Nebula. It isn’t really a Waterfall. Sure, sure you didn’t think it was. No, I believe you. I’m not winking, I have something in my eyes.

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What created the Waterfall Nebula? No one knows. The structure seen in the region of  NGC 1999  in the Great  Orion Molecular Cloud complex  is one of the more mysterious structures yet found on the sky. Designated HH-222, the elongated gaseous stream stretches about ten light years and emits an unusual array of colors.  One hypothesis  is that the gas filament results from the wind from a young star impacting a nearby molecular cloud. That would not explain, however, why the  Waterfall  and fainter streams all appear to converge on a bright but unusual non thermal radio source located toward the upper left of the curving structure.  Another hypothesis  is that the unusual radio source originates from a  binary system  containing a hot  white dwarf,  neutron star, or  black hole, and that the  Waterfall  is just a jet from this energetic system. Such systems, though, are typically strong  X-rays  emitters, and no X-rays have been detected. For now, this case remains unsolved. Perhaps well-chosen  future observations  and  clever deductive reasoning  will unlock the true origin of this enigmatic wisp in the future.

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