#Protostars

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1 month ago

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula in this image released on Jan. 21, 2026. Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Now, looking outside our solar system, Webb has returned the first conclusive evidence that links how those conditions are possible. The telescope clearly showed for the first time that the hot, inner part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding a very young, actively forming star is where crystalline silicates are forged. Webb also revealed a strong outflow that is capable of carrying the crystals to the outer edges of this disk. Compared to our own fully formed, mostly dust-cleared solar system, the crystals would be forming approximately between the Sun and Earth. Read more about this discovery. _Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)_

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled a...

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Observatories

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1 month ago

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula in this image released on Jan. 21, 2026. Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Now, looking outside our solar system, Webb has returned the first conclusive evidence that links how those conditions are possible. The telescope clearly showed for the first time that the hot, inner part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding a very young, actively forming star is where crystalline silicates are forged. Webb also revealed a strong outflow that is capable of carrying the crystals to the outer edges of this disk. Compared to our own fully formed, mostly dust-cleared solar system, the crystals would be forming approximately between the Sun and Earth. Read more about this discovery. _Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)_

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled a...

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1 month ago

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Now, looking outside our solar system, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope […]

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1 month ago

Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble took these infant star snapshots in an effort to learn how massive stars form. Protostars are shrouded in thick dust that blocks light, but Hubble can detect the near-infrared emission that shines through holes […]

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1 month ago

Hubble Observes Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. White wisps of gas swirl throughout the region, and in the lower-left corner resides a dark dust cloud. Bright T Tauri stars shine at […]

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NASA Science

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2 months ago

Hubble’s Album of Planet-Forming Disks This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of gas and dust that surround forming stars, in both visible and infrared wavelengths. Through observations of young stellar objects like these, Hubble helps scientists better understand how stars form. These visible-light images depict dark, planet-forming dust disks […] The post Hubble’s Album of Planet-Forming Disks appeared first on NASA Science.

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2 months ago

Hubble Observes Stars Flaring to Life in Orion Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effort to learn more about the envelopes of gas and dust surrounding the protostars, as well as the outflow cavities where stellar winds and jets […]

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NASA Science

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2 months ago

Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH) objects previously observed by Hubble in 1995. The patch to the upper left is part […] The post Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze appeared first on NASA Science.

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German Virtual Observatory

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3 months ago

VizieR J/A+A/703/A277

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Accretion luminosity of Class I protostars” by Testi L. et al.
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#RadioSpectroscopy #Protostars

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German Virtual Observatory

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3 months ago

VizieR J/A+A/703/A244

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Anatomy of L1489 IRS with NOEMA II” by Tanious M. et al.
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#MolecularClouds #Interferometry #ChemicalAbundances #Protostars

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German Virtual Observatory

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4 months ago

VizieR J/MNRAS/543/420

New in the #VirtualObservatory: “YSOs parameters and abundances. I. Orion” by Lopez-Valdivia R. et al.
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NASA Science

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5 months ago

How Webb Illuminates Stars’ Cloudy Origins In the space between stars, dark clouds of gas, dust, and ice mingle in a chemical laboratory unlike any on Earth. Ewine van Dishoeck, an astronomer who studies molecules in space and who helped develop an instrument aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, explains how Webb is revealing new details about the formation of stars and planets. This research could help unlock a key question about Earth: how did our planet end up with water and the ingredients for life? The post How Webb Illuminates Stars’ Cloudy Origins appeared first on NASA Science.

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Ed "Zorz" Hafizov

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6 months ago

Webb’s dazzling new #photo shows pair of growing #stars zorz.it/jObnL | #JeremyGray #astronomy #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST #ProtoStars #science #space #Webb

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Exoplanets

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7 months ago

Monthly Roundup: Astronomy in the News Catch up on recent astronomy news: a stellar navigation experiment, a doomed planet, an icy protostar, and a mysterious radio source. The post Monthly Roundup...

#Features #Highlights #exoplanets #New #Horizons #protostars […]

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Exoplanets

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7 months ago

Monthly Roundup: Astronomy in the News Catch up on recent astronomy news: a stellar navigation experiment, a doomed planet, an icy protostar, and a mysterious radio source. The post Monthly Roundup...

#Features #Highlights #exoplanets #New #Horizons #protostars […]

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Knowledge Zone

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8 months ago

#PhotoOfTheDay: The #Protostars within Lynds 483

Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Apodsky

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9 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared image reveals a stunning hourglass-shaped nebula, Lynds 483, 650 light-years away in Serpens Cauda. Two protostars hidden near the center drive powerful bipolar outflows, creating dramatic twisting shock fronts visible in exquisite detail. This close-up showcases the violent beauty of star formation within a region less than half a light-year across.

Astronomy Picture from 13/03/2025

The Protostars within Lynds 483

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250313.html

#JWST #Nebula #Protostars #StarBirth #HourglassNebula #Lynds483 #Space #Astronomy #Cosmology #DeepSpace #StarFormation #SerpensCauda #Infrared

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VibeWire News

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11 months ago

Like Sands Through the Hourglass… Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This star system, called Lynds 483, is named for American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds, who published extensive catalogs of “dark” and […] The post Like Sands Through the Hourglass… first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Massimo Luciani

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1 year ago

Protoplanetary disks last longer in environments poor in heavy elements An article published in 'The Astrophysical Journal' reports the results of the study of a group of protoplanetary disks with an age of up to 30 million years,...

#astronomy #JWST #stars #protostars Protoplanetary disks last longer in environments poor in heavy elements english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/12/17/p...

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Dumb Marks Podcast

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1 year ago

How many #protostars will Meltzer give that Ospreay/Fletcher match? #AEWFullGear

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Knowledge Zone

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1 year ago

Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars.

Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into #Protostars.

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