Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Located some 3 million light …

2008年3月23日 · NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured a glowing stellar nursery within a dark globule that reveals the birth of new protostars, or embryonic stars, and young stars …

2024年4月1日 · "Cosmic Cliffs" was one of the first stellar nursery images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. This image showcases Webb's ability to peer through thick …

2020年10月16日 · This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous

2012年12月13日 · Many young stars from this cloud are visible in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive …

2023年7月12日 · NASA celebrated the first year of science observations with the James Webb Space Telescope with a new image showing a stellar nursery where about 50 young sun-like …

2013年12月6日 · Located in the constellation of Orion — some1,600 light years from Earth — this reflection nebula is known to contain more than 40 very young stars still in the process of …

2021年8月13日 · This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). At the center of …

2012年12月13日 · About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so …

2010年1月26日 · Animation of stellar nursery with shockwaves. Stellar nurseries are dense clouds of gas in interstellar space. Protostars form as the gas begins to clump due to gravity.