star formation

The cometary globule called the Dark Tower, a dark nebula being blasted by radiation from a nearby star cluster. Credit: Robert Gendler
Radiation driven implosion!
Phil Plait
Dec 27, 2018

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An ancient fading ghost of a massive star haunts the night
Phil Plait
Sep 12, 2018
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The supernova remnant HBH 3 can be seen as wispy red tendrils in this Spitzer Space Telescope image. The other objects are star forming regions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC
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Astronomical birth announcement: It's a bouncing baby planet!
Phil Plait
Jul 2, 2018
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Artwork of a planet forming in a young star’s disk. Credit: NAOJ
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The dead star, the doomed star, and their little friend
Phil Plait
May 8, 2018
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Artwork depicting a black hole drawing material off its massive blue stellar companion. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Orion's filaments of star birth
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Mar 23, 2018
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Cold gas and dust in Orion form filaments with bundles of individual “fibers” about a light year long. The four bright stars (left) are the Trapezium, the center of the famous Orion Nebula. ​​​​​​​Credit: ESO/H. Drass/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/A. Hacar
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Nebula
Phil Plait
Dec 22, 2017
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Barnard 3, a shell of gas and dust as seen in the far infrared by WISE. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
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A distant galaxy pushes Hubble beyond its limits
Phil Plait
Sep 14, 2017
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The “true” shape of the lensed galaxy (right, inset), reconstructed by mapping out the structure of the galaxy cluster and determining how it distorted the light of SGAS 1110 on its way to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Johnson (University of Michigan)
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The loneliest (nearby) galaxy
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Aug 25, 2017
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The galaxy Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte, one of the loneliest (and oldest) galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood, imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope. Credit: ESO
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A 500 trillion km long streamer of ammonia in Orion
Phil Plait
Aug 24, 2017
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A huge filament of ammonia glows in centimeter light (displayed here as orange) superposed on the Orion Nebula (blue), and is the site of the formation of many stars.
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Did life here begin ... out there? Maybe its precursors did.
Phil Plait
Jun 8, 2017
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500 years ago, a huge multi-star collision in Orion triggered a ridiculously powerful cosmic explosion
Phil Plait
Apr 11, 2017
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Gemini + ALMA observations of the event
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