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While conducting a detailed analysis of the dwarf galaxy NGC 2366, a team of astronomers operating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that the formation is home to a bright, relatively large stellar nursery. The object is so close that experts can make out its individual components.
A stellar nursery... |
11 May 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Using the most complex infrared telescope ever deployed to space – the Herschel Space Observatory – experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently snapped an amazing image of the stellar nursery Cygnus-X. The structure is located around 4,500 light-years away, in the Cygnus constellation.
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10 May 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Astronomers have recently used the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope at Chajnantor, in Chile, to image the reflection nebula Messier 78, which is located very close to the famous Orion's Belt. The image reveals the cosmic structure in unprecedented detail. The interesting thing about APEX is that,... |
2 May 2012
06:33 GMT |
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According to a new theory, it could be that asteroid impacts that took place in our planet's distant past shot sprays of DNA material into deep space, which may have then made its way to worlds located around nearby stars.
In this manner, life may have traveled from our planet to other locations in the Sun... |
9 April 2012
08:19 GMT |
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A massive dust filament located in the Taurus Molecular Cloud was recently imaged by experts at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The 10-light-year-long gas cloud stretches like a ribbon through the constellation Taurus, and is home to numerous forming stars.
According to data collected by the Atacama Pathfin... |
15 February 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Every single image I've seen that was released by the awesome team behind the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been amazing, and their latest one isn't any different. In fact, it's the most complex, detailed and precise photo taken of the Carina Nebula in infrared wavelengths.
The European Southern Obs... |
9 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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The American space agency is celebrating Christmas in its own way, by having some of its spacecraft send back new images of targets such as stellar nurseries and gas giants. The NASA/ESA Cassini mission and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) are the most important such probes.
Cassini is without a doubt... |
23 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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This apocalyptic view of a small region of the sky is generated by a single, young star, which is currently in the latest stages of formation. The intense stellar winds it generates are literally ripping its stellar nursery apart piece by piece.
The star, dubbed S106 IR, is located in the direction of the constella... |
15 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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A team of German astronomers recently used a Chile-based telescope to scan the depths of the Carina Nebula in submillimeter wavelengths, and managed to identify the dust and gas clouds from which new stars are born inside the stellar nursery.
The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope is located on the Chaj... |
16 November 2011
07:07 GMT |
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A new image, released by NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team, depicts the amazing nebula NGC 3603 in exquisite detail, revealing features that were not known to astronomers until the renowned telescope came online.
What makes NGC 3603 so special is the fact that it's among the largest stellar nurseries in the Mil... |
4 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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A large stellar nursery known as the Pacman Nebula is revealing new aspects of itself to astronomers in this infrared image captured by the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The teeth-like structures visible in Pacman's mouth are not visible in visible-light wavelengths.
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27 October 2011
03:10 GMT |
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NASA has just released a new image depicting the Sword in the Orion's Nebula. The exquisite image shows an area of intense stellar formation known as a stellar nursery, which features thousands of stars. The gas around the structure is glowing because it's ionized by stellar winds all around. In addition to... |
18 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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In a series of recent observations, investigators managed to determine the existence of a flowing cloud of cosmic dust in the Omega Nebula. The cloud, dubbed M17 SWex, is currently forming stars, but has not yet began igniting massive, O-type stars, experts say.O stars are the most massive stars in the Universe, and ... |
2 May 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Investigators with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently managed to snap an interesting view of the stellar nursery called NGC 3582, which is located in the larger RCW 57 star-forming region of the Milky Way. The new image reveals interesting structures within the gas clouds. The tendrils the ESO team obse... |
14 April 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Scientists operating the Spitzer Space Telescope announce that they recently managed to capture an impressive new view of an area of intense stellar formation in the system II Zw 096, which is made up of two colliding galaxies. This type of mergers is known for producing spectacular vistas. As two galaxies cannibaliz... |
24 November 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have recently produced an impressive new image of the Tarantula Nebula, a stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo was snapped as part of the VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey the experts were conducting in the galaxy.Over the past year or so, the T... |
11 August 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Researchers announce the discovery of a very peculiar structure in space. Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, a group of astronomers managed to identify a vast hole in space, located in a region of the Universe that they previously thought should have been filled with a ... |
12 May 2010
02:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland have recently determined the existence of a new phase of water in a star-forming region of the Milky Way. The researchers there say that the vapors their analysis revealed have electrical charges, something that has not been observed in nature back on Earth. Generally,... |
8 May 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Experts at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released earlier today an amazing new view of the stellar nursery NGC 346. The formation, which is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of our smaller neighboring galaxies, is the brightest star-forming region discovered in the Cloud. It resides some 210,000 li... |
24 February 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Astronomers discovered some time ago that huge clouds of cosmic dust and gas tended to envelop regions that were extremely appropriate for the birth of new stars. In these areas, which have since been named stellar nurseries, the concentration of dust and gas is so great, that gravitational effects gather these eleme... |
11 January 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have recently made a new addition to their arsenal of breathtaking images, when they have used their Chile-based facility to gain a new, highly detailed image of the Trifid Nebula, also known as the Trisected Nebula. The formation, located some 5,500 light-years ... |
26 August 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Astronomers know that stars can form when a mass of cooled cosmic dust and gas collapses on itself due to gravitational pull, or inside stellar nurseries, where the vast amounts of gas and dust present make this very easy. However, they may have just discovered a new way of boosting stellar generation rates, inside a... |
21 August 2009
09:55 GMT |
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The aptly named RCW 38 is one of the densest star clusters known, located some 5,500 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Vela. The embedded cluster, termed that way because the immensely vast amounts of dust and gas that trigger star formation still envelop developing formations, is one of the str... |
19 August 2009
10:54 GMT |
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If you point your telescope towards the Sagittarius constellation at night, and have a very powerful tool, you could see the dazzling stellar nursery Omega Nebula – also known as the Swan Nebula – some 5,500 light-years away. In its continuous star-forming activity, it is light from the inside out that gi... |
7 July 2009
19:51 GMT |
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Astronomers scouting an ancient gas cloud known as the Leo Ring have discovered that the formation houses forming stars, even though it lacks most known necessary elements that support this process, such as heavy elements and dark matter. The scientists have been puzzled by the way the young stars formed, and have hy... |
19 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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