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Birth of a Star | Out There | The New York Times
Video
19 December 2014
In galactic nurseries like the Orion Nebula,
clouds of gas and dust mingle,
birthing new stars and
planetary systems.
The ALMA radio telescope
made a recent observation
of possible
planets being born.
Produced by:
Jason Drakeford, Jonathan Corum and Dennis
Overbye
Read the story here:
http://nyti.ms/1r38pmX
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NGC 6302
Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise
in
Planetary Nebula NGC 6302
This celestial object looks like
a delicate butterfly. But it is far from
serene.
What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling
cauldrons of gas
heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour
-- fast
enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!
A dying star that was once about five times
the
mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury.
It has ejected its envelope of gases
and is now unleashing a stream of
ultraviolet radiation
that is making the cast-off material glow.
This object is an example of a planetary nebula,
so-named because many of them
have a round appearance
resembling that of a planet when viewed through a small
telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Images from Refurbished Hubble
2009
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/384540main_ero_ngc6302_label.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/384572main_ero_ngc6302_full_full.jpg
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Ten thousand years ago,
before the dawn of recorded human
history,
a new light must suddenly have appeared
in the night sky and faded after a few
weeks.
Today we know this light was an exploding star
and record the colorful expanding
cloud as the Veil Nebula.
Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula
known technically as NGC 6960,
but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula.
The rampaging gas gains its colors
by impacting and exciting existing nearby
gas.
Credit & Copyright: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), NOAO, AURA, NSF
Astronomy Picture of the Day
star UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-24
star USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/25/
605622779/you-are-here-scientists-unveil-precise-map-of-more-than-a-billion-stars
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/04/
575399319/astronomers-find-huge-stars-more-common-than-previously-thought
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/
509010493/scientists-predict-star-collision-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-2022
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/
science/space/the-archaeology-of-the-stars.html
huge / massive star USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/04/
575399319/astronomers-find-huge-stars-more-common-than-previously-thought
red supergiant > Betelgeuse
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/
science/betelgeuse-pictures-supernova.html
star colllision USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/
509010493/scientists-predict-star-collision-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-2022
collide
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/
509010493/scientists-predict-star-collision-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-2022
Proxima Centauri USA
Proxima Centauri
is 4.2 light years away,
the closest star
to our solar system.
The star lies
in the constellation Centaurus,
near the Southern Cross,
but is too faint to be seen
with the naked eye.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/24/
science/space/proxima-centauri-nearest-exoplanet.html
Alpha Centauri
the nearest star
system,
4.37 light-years away
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/
science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/12/
473960826/forget-starships-new-proposal-would-use-starchips-to-visit-alpha-centauri
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/
science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html
Alpha Centaury A
and B
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/24/
science/space/proxima-centauri-nearest-exoplanet.html
young stars
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-22
old stars
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-22
straight bar of
stars UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-23
massive stars
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-18
monster stars
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/19/
471005496/hubble-space-telescope-pinpoints-monster-stars
Cepheid variable
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-21
ball of stars /
globular clusters UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-17
star-birth region
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-1
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-13
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-15
star-forming
region
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-18
newly formed star
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-12
stellar explosion
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-6
star cluster
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-19
star cluster
USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/01/
403567453/pillars-of-creation-may-be-gone-in-an-eye-blink-in-cosmic-time
young star
cluster > star cluster R136 USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/19/
471005496/hubble-space-telescope-pinpoints-monster-stars
cluster of young,
massive stars UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-7
dying Sun-like
star UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-8
dying star
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-9
lie, lay,
lain USA
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/24/
science/space/proxima-centauri-nearest-exoplanet.html
stargazing
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/
in-praise-of-stargazing
stargazing
USA
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/28/
435189774/stargazing-from-the-street-corner-telescope-and-hat-in-hand
star gazers
stardust
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/
science/space/07burbidge.html
shooting star
supergiant star
wandering star
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/18/
wandering-star-planet-galaxy
death of star > 'monster' gamma ray burst in
space UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/22/
gamma-ray-burst-monster-explosion
nebula
constellation of
Serpens > Eagle Nebula USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/05/01/
403567453/pillars-of-creation-may-be-gone-in-an-eye-blink-in-cosmic-time
nova
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/news/1977/jan/14/
mainsection.fromthearchive
supernovae / supernova / exploding stars
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/
chandra_bright_supernova.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/supernovae
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/08/
zombie-star-amazes-astronomers-by-surviving-multiple-supernovae
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/14/
462710274/record-busting-star-explosion-baffles-sky-watchers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/14/
supernova-explosion-glimpse-life-created
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/08/
supernova-explosion-visible-from-uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2008/may/22/
spaceexploration?picture=334311691
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2141465920080521
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/14/usa
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-05-07-
supernova_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-02-23-
supernova_x.htm
SN2011fe supernova in Pinwheel galaxy
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/14/
supernova-explosion-glimpse-life-created
giant supernova RCW 86 UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/25/
massive-supernova-mystery-rcw86-nasa
baby supernova
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1452084320080514
burst of gamma-ray radiation
cosmic explosion
the birth of a supernova
supernova
explosion UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-20
supernova
explosion USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/14/
462710274/record-busting-star-explosion-baffles-sky-watchers
expanding remnant
of a star’s supernova explosion UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2015/apr/21/
hubble-at-25-the-best-images-from-the-space-telescope#img-10
swirls
eddies
clouds
swirls of interstellar dust
in the void of interstellar space
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