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Hubble Space Telescope Takes Spectacular Photo Of Newborn Star
Sam D
First Posted: Jun 02, 2016 04:30 AM EDT
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) recently captured the stunning image of an infant star coming out from a dust cloud. Named IRAS 14568-6403, the baby star was reportedly seen making its way brightly through the Circinus molecular cloud complex, a massive cloud of dust and gas.
The Circinus is located 2,280 light years away from our planet and stretches across 180 light years of space. The area has enough gas to create 250,000 stars like the Sun, as per the European Space Agency (ESA). Incidentally, the massive cloud complex looks like a dark sky surrounding the star in the photo, whereas the emission of gas at supersonic speeds, gives the appearance of a tail right below the star.
The new star is just one among a group of numerous young stellar bodies in this region of Circinus, and each of the baby stars produce jets of gas. On being observed as a collective, the cluster of infant stars appears as one most massive, brightest and most energetic outflow ever observed by astronomer to date.
Built by NASA in collaboration with ESA, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into Earth’s low orbit in 1990 and will be released from its duty sometime in 2020, which indicates 30 years of servitude where it has and will take some of the most detailed images of stars and galaxies, offering earthlings a deep and clear view into space and time. The orbit of the Hubble outside the earth’s atmosphere, which can cause a distorting effect, allows the space telescope to capture exceedingly high resolution images which, by the way, have led scientists to make breakthrough researches in astrophysics like analyzing the rate at which the Universe expands. In the next four years, the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope will take the Hubble’s place in succession, and offer an even clearer picture of the Universe.
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First Posted: Jun 02, 2016 04:30 AM EDT
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) recently captured the stunning image of an infant star coming out from a dust cloud. Named IRAS 14568-6403, the baby star was reportedly seen making its way brightly through the Circinus molecular cloud complex, a massive cloud of dust and gas.
The Circinus is located 2,280 light years away from our planet and stretches across 180 light years of space. The area has enough gas to create 250,000 stars like the Sun, as per the European Space Agency (ESA). Incidentally, the massive cloud complex looks like a dark sky surrounding the star in the photo, whereas the emission of gas at supersonic speeds, gives the appearance of a tail right below the star.
The new star is just one among a group of numerous young stellar bodies in this region of Circinus, and each of the baby stars produce jets of gas. On being observed as a collective, the cluster of infant stars appears as one most massive, brightest and most energetic outflow ever observed by astronomer to date.
Built by NASA in collaboration with ESA, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into Earth’s low orbit in 1990 and will be released from its duty sometime in 2020, which indicates 30 years of servitude where it has and will take some of the most detailed images of stars and galaxies, offering earthlings a deep and clear view into space and time. The orbit of the Hubble outside the earth’s atmosphere, which can cause a distorting effect, allows the space telescope to capture exceedingly high resolution images which, by the way, have led scientists to make breakthrough researches in astrophysics like analyzing the rate at which the Universe expands. In the next four years, the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope will take the Hubble’s place in succession, and offer an even clearer picture of the Universe.
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