2023-07-28 19:08:00
The two stars are in the center of the orange and white spot. Space Telescope Science Institute
Called Herbig-Haro 46/47, the two stars are 1470 light-years from Earth, a “relatively close” distance on the scale of the universe.
The James-Webb Space Telescope captured the captivating spectacle of two forming stars in a snapshot unveiled by NASA on July 26. To observe thesestar babies», named Herbig-Haro 46/47, it is necessary «follow the hot pink and red diffraction peaks to the center“, indicates the American space agency in a press release. The nascent stars are found within “the orange and white stain».
Around them is adisk of gas and dust that feeds their growth, as they continue to gain mass“. If he is invisible, his shadow is drawn in two areas “conicaldark around the stars.
1470 light years from Earth
The detail “the most striking“according to NASA, these are the two bright orange lobes that surround the stars, produced by expelled gases and matter, “like a fountain triggered regularly but randomly». «These ejections regulate the mass acquired by the stars“, specifies the space agency.
If this picture offers so many details, it is in particular because the two objects, 1470 light-years from Earth, are “relatively closeof us, on the scale of the universe. But also because the infrared image was obtained after several exposures.
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