As NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope operated in the November Nebula, it shared another image Tuesday, but this time it offered more room for exploration. In this image, stars are seen emerging from a nebula filled with clouds of gas and dust. Located in the constellation Aquila, this nebula is called a “B-Type star factory” and is called G035.20-0.74 and is known to produce a certain type of massive star known as a B-Type star. These stars are hot, young, blue stars that are five times hotter than our sun.
Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under the influence of their own gravity. When the cloud collapses, a dense hot core forms and begins to collect dust and gas, forming a protostar. The region in this image, which is home to a massive protostar, was observed by Hubble As part of a program to examine the emission of glowing gas emitted into space by massive protostars.
“These fast-moving jets, which form when gas collects around a newly formed star and only last for 100,000 years, are known to play a role in star formation. Astronomers are interested to see if such emission affects the formation of massive stars similar to that of star formation,” NASA said. In his statement, the way it affects the formation of low-mass stars.
To create this image, astronomers combined infrared observations from Hubble with observations from radio telescopes to see the dusty star-forming regions within this region. They found material that has properties associated with low-mass young stars, which means that the mechanisms that produce the light emitted by these jets are similar in young stars of different masses, up to ten times the mass of the Sun. This image follows the image shared by Hubble, which includes the dark nebula, or absorption nebula called LDN 1165.
Don’t miss the absorption nebula
This particular image shared by Hubble is part of a collection called the Dark Nebula Linds Catalog, originally published in 1962. LDN 1165 belongs to a class of gas and dust clouds that do not emit or reflect light, and instead block incoming light. from behind them. These nebulae tend to contain large amounts of dust, which allows them to absorb visible light from the star or nebula behind them. NASA says dark nebulae are so dark they’re called “holes in the sky,” but they may actually be full of activity, as stars sometimes form within their thick clouds.
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