star formation

The FUGIN survey looked at a huge swath of the Milky Way (top), finding both areas of low-density gas (bottom left) and high (bottom right). The latter is where stars are born. Credit: NINS, NOAJ, Nobeyama, FOREST
When it comes to making stars, galactic gas tanks are nowhere near full
Phil Plait
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A lopsided trail of galactic destruction… and construction
Phil Plait
Jun 25, 2019
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The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4485 has a lot of gas and star formation going on either in it or nearby, due to the influence of another galaxy.
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Westerhout 40: A waist of space
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Jun 21, 2019
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The star-forming nebula Westerhout 40, as seen in the far-infrared by Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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ALMA sees 100,000 stellar nurseries in nearby galaxies
Phil Plait
Mar 26, 2019
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The nearby spiral galaxy M 100 observed by ALMA (left) reveals the locations of star-forming nebulae; compare that to an image taken using the Very Large Telescope (right) in optical light
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Radiation driven implosion!
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Dec 27, 2018
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The cometary globule called the Dark Tower, a dark nebula being blasted by radiation from a nearby star cluster. Credit: Robert Gendler
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An ancient fading ghost of a massive star haunts the night
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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!
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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
Phil Plait
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
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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
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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
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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
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Apr 11, 2017
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Gemini + ALMA observations of the event
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