Astronomers have obtained a snapshot of the five closest locations of active star formation. In this respect informs European Southern Observatory.
“In these images, we can detect even the weakest sources of light, including stars with much less mass than the Sun, and reveal objects that no one has seen before. This helps us understand the processes that transform gas and dust into stars,” said astronomer Stefan Meingast of the University of Vienna. it will,” he says.
Stars are formed by the gravitational compression of clouds of gas and dust. Gradually, during compression, the pressure and temperature of the gas increase and a thermonuclear reaction ignites, but the details of this process are not fully understood. To remedy this, the authors of the new study observed five nearby “star nurseries” using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope. “Dust blocks these young stars from our field of view, making them nearly invisible. We can only look deep into these clouds in the infrared range,” the scientists explain.
During the study, star forming regions were observed in the constellations of Orion, Ophiuchus, Chameleon, Southern Crown and Wolf. These regions are removed from the Earth by about 1500 sv. year. In total, more than a million views were acquired over five years. The individual images were then stitched together, and the resulting panoramas show dark dust specks, glowing clouds, newborn “born” stars, and other distant background stars.
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