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The place where stars are born

In interstellar molecular clouds, large molecules can form despite the non-ideal conditions prevailing there
Webb's close-up, high-resolution ESA view of Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite details of the young star's jet. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin)

Webb photographed supersonic jets from a star of his day

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Herbig-harrows are luminous regions surrounding young stars. They form when stellar winds or jets of gas ejected from these stars create shock waves that collide at high speeds with nearby gas and dust.
A new Web image showing a small area of ​​star formation in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud structure. Published on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the scientific activity of the James Webb Space Telescope. Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA

Webb marks one year of science with a close-up photo of the birth of sun-like stars

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From our own cosmic backyard in the Solar System to distant galaxies toward the dawn of time, the NASA/European Space Agency/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has lived up to its promise to reveal the universe like never before in its first year of scientific activity. To celebrate the end of a year A successful first, a new Web image has been released of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
The Webb Space Telescope observes NGC 346 (NIRCam Image) Photo: NASA, ESA

The Webb Space Telescope reveals star formation in the dusty bands of the Small Magellanic Cloud

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Previous infrared studies of the NGC 346 nebula have focused on stellar embryos heavier than five to eight times the mass of our Sun. With the help of the Web, it is possible to reach even lighter protostars, as small as a tenth of our sun
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a rich and highly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation." A region where new stars form within dense clouds of gas and dust previously captured in an iconic image by the Hubble Space Telescope in its early days. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

The Webb Space Telescope returns to Hubble's iconic "Pillars of Creation" and finds many more young stars

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a rich and highly detailed view of the "Pillars of Creation." A region where new stars form within dense clouds of gas and dust that was previously captured in an iconic image by the Hubble Space Telescope at the start of its operation and returned to after upgrades, along with Strong landmasses
The Carina Nebula in a near-infrared photograph. One of the first images taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScIn

NASA's Webb Telescope reveals cosmic cliffs and star-forming regions in the Carina Nebula

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"Cosmic Cliffs" images show Webb's cameras' ability to peer through cosmic dust, shedding new light on how stars form * Webb's technology could help watch the elusive process of star formation
Detailed view from the previous photo: a closer look at the jet. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Bally (University of Colorado at Boulder) Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

Hubble discovers a pulsating jet of stars in the Running Man Nebula that stretches over 18 trillion km in space

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Generally, the flow of such a jet coming out of a young star will only be seen when it collides with material around it, and creates bright shock waves that disappear when they cool, so they are difficult to observe
This is the previous image to which Godzilla's outline was added. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Godzilla Nebula: 'Monstrous' star-forming region discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

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Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes look like familiar objects, or even like characters from popular movies
A composite image of the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope in observations made over many years. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

Vortices of chaos at the heart of the Orion Nebula

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Gaseous swirls of hydrogen, sulfur and hydrocarbons cradle a collection of baby stars in this composite image of the Orio Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope
These six images represent the variety of star-forming regions in nearby galaxies. The galaxies are part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). This is the largest and most comprehensive survey of ultraviolet (UV) light observations of star-forming galaxies in the near Universe. the neighbor The six images include two dwarf galaxies (UGC 5340 and UGCA 281) and four large spiral galaxies (NGC 3368, NGC 3627, NGC 6744 and NGC 4258). The images are a mixture of ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble's Wide Field Camera No. 3 and its Advanced Survey Camera. CREDIT: NASA/ESA/LEGUS TEAM

Astronomers have prepared the most comprehensive survey of nearby galaxies in the ultraviolet field with the help of Hubble

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T-type brown dwarf. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech

The Milky Way may contain 100 billion brown dwarfs

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This image shows the spectacular region of star formation where methyl isocyanate is found. Inside the circle - an illustration showing the molecular structure of this chemical. Image: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/L. Calçada

One of the basic building blocks of life was discovered in solar systems in the stages of their formation

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Three Methuselah stars have been discovered that formed in the universe shortly after the Big Bang

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This artist's illustration shows what happened immediately after a large asteroid impact around NGC 2,547-ID8, a 35-million-year-old Sun-like star that is beginning to form rocky planets. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Spitzer Space Telescope observed the results of an asteroid collision in another solar system

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Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy NGC 3081. Photo: European Space Agency and NASA, R. Botha - University of Alabama.

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals: stars are born around black holes in the centers of galaxies

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Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above a disk where planets form around stars as seen in this artist rendering Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The mystery of disks from which planets are formed has been solved with the help of magnetism

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The Smith Cloud (in orange, at the bottom of the image) is on its way to collide with the Milky Way. Photo: Bill Zaxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Magnetic force fields rescue a large gas cloud that is on a collision course with the Milky Way

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An unprecedented photograph of the object Herbig-Haro 46/47 combining radio observations from the Alma Observatory with much shorter wavelength photographs of visible light from ESO's New Technology Telescope. Alma observations (orange and green, lower right) of the newborn star reveal a large energetic jet moving away from us, hidden by the dust and gas in the nebula where the star was born. On the left side (in pink and purple) we see the visible part of the jet, partially flying towards us. Photo: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Chile: A telescope photographed a star born only 1,400 light years from Earth

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Preplanetary Adsorption Disc. Image: NASA

Cosmic eddies caused the formation of stars and black holes

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"The Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud". In this composite image of the wing, Chandra data are shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are colored red, green and blue. Infrared radiation data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red.

Suns similar to our Sun have been discovered when it was young in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy

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An artist's rendering of the various configurations of the asteroid belt that could appear. Figure: NASA/ESA/A. Feild, STScI

A study in which Prof. Mario Livio participated: deadly asteroids to a degree necessary for the development of complex life

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The dust disappears around the star known as TYC 8241 2652. Photo: University of California

Houdini in Space: A large amount of gas around a star has mysteriously disappeared

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The difference between the speed of dark matter and that of normal matter (baryons - all matter consisting mainly of hydrogen and helium). The speed difference is small in the areas marked in blue and large in the red areas. Compared to the density picture, the velocity shows a consistent structure on a much larger scale. Regions where the velocity differences are large are places where there are fewer stars because the halo is moving fast and is not trapped by the gravity of the dark matter concentrations, where the halo must accumulate to form stars.

Where were the first stars formed?

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Discovering planets outside the solar system using the eclipse method, the method used by the Kepler space telescope. Photo: NASA

The formation of minor planets does not require a high abundance of heavy elements

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A galaxy 10 billion light years away as photographed with the help of gravitational lensing by the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble observed a galaxy magnified by gravitational lensing

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