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Now that the Hubble Space Telescope is back online and working properly, it has captured some amazing images, including new stars emerging from a “star nursery” in deep space.
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) image captured a “stellar nursery” in the constellation of Gemini, about 5,000 light-years from Earth.
The nursery, known as AFGL 5180, is made up of dust and gas and is one of the many regions of space where stars are born.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of new stars emerging from a “stellar nursery” 50 light-years away
Arboretum AFGL 5180 consists of dust and gas and is located in the constellation Gemini. Gemini has two stars: Pollux (left) and Castor (right). Pollux is located 33 light years from Earth and Castor is 51 light years away
The image was taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera, which captures images in visible and infrared light
The image was captured by Hubble’s WFC3, which captures images in visible and infrared light, allowing young stars hiding in regions like AFGL 5180 to be seen more clearly.
“Stars are born in dusty environments, and while this dust makes amazing images, astronomers can sometimes see stars in them,” NASA wrote in the NASA Journal. advertisement.
Hubble’s WFC3 instrument is designed to capture detailed images in both visible and infrared light, meaning that young stars hiding in vast star-forming regions like AFGL 5180 can be seen more clearly.
In the image, a “massive” star begins to form and its voids appear through the clouds.
NASA added that the light reaches Earth by illuminating the recesses, similar to a “lighthouse piercing storm clouds.”
The constellation of Gemini consists of two stars: Pollux and Castor.
NASA said on the site website.
Instead, Castor is 51 light-years away and is a blue main-sequence star, 2.7 times the size of the Sun.
Castor has at least two stellar companions, while Pollux has at least one “Massive Planet”.
In June, a group of cosmic cartographers mapped star nurseries and revealed just how diverse the different galaxies are in the universe.
They have studied star-forming regions in our part of the universe and mapped more than 100,000 nurseries in 90 nearby galaxies to gain insight into the origin of stars.
Stars consist of clouds of dust and gas called molecular clouds or stellar nurseries.
Each stellar nursery in the universe can form thousands or even tens of thousands of new stars in its lifetime.
Stellar nurseries live for up to 30 million years, which is a small amount of time on astronomical scales, and not very efficient at turning gas into stars.
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