#protostars

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Protostar L1527.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI).

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honestly don't know why i'm posting this. i guess i have nothing else to do or to live for

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The Soul Nebula

IC 1898 is a great example of a nebula giving birth to number of clusters of stars, and then those young hot stars blowing back the dust and gas to create bubbles, but if you look closely to the edges of that bubble, you can see the new stars and protostars being born, which ultimately will further blow the bubble outwards.

This is what would have happened when our star was born, born into a nebula into a cluster with many other stars large and small, it would have blown back and helped form a bubble that would ultimately lead to the cluster being left on it's own, and eventually due to interactions with other stars, being kicked out of the cluster home, to wonder the galaxy on it's own for the rest of it's main sequence.

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An article published in 'The Astrophysical Journal' reports the results of the study of a group of protoplanetary disks with an age of up to

An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of the study of a group of protoplanetary disks with an age of up to 30 million years, even 10 times older than current models of planet formation predict. A team led by Guido De Marchi of ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre used observations conducted with the James Webb space telescope of the cluster NGC 346, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. That region is characterized by a limited amount of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, just like the early universe. This study confirms that in those conditions, protoplanetary disks can last much longer than astronomers thought.

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We're finally getting season 2 in less than a month!

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Polysexual flag colorpicked from L1527 cloud and protostar

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Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula

Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis. Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chal

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Everyone go look at the James Webb images of a protostar we aren’t talking about them enough