The cosmic Tornado of the star’s birthday courses in the impressive JWST

The cosmic Tornado of the star’s birthday courses in the impressive JWST

Written by Gaeung Lee Edited by Sarah Loine Fraser

when StarLeave the process behind a wave of high -energy gas, dust and debris. Some of this remaining material is combined together in the planets, and the way the Earth is formed. Others eventually end up, as long as meteorites and space dust. But when the circumstances are completely correct, strong plasma planes explode from a young star, some debris in a giant spiral tower of cosmic dust that appears steam-and-one we can now see better than ever, Thanks to the JMST Telescope (JWST).

Astronomers have always been aware of these alleged things from Herbig Harro-Mashael gas, and often near newborns, who could have been light years ago-including one called HH 49/50, whose distinctive shape led to the title “Tornado Costume”. This object lights up in Cloud Complex 625 of the light years of the ground. Once again in 2006, when HH 49/50 was first monitored by the SpitZer Space telescope now, astronomers were able to make only a cut of gas and hot dust with something bright at the end. Although it was an exciting discovery at the time, the low accuracy of the image left the situation foggy.

Now, with much larger JWST, the full image settles to the focus: the telescope captures this area of dust and debris just like the child’s protestar (perhaps somewhere on its bottom right, outside the limits of the image shown here) was exploding in this very special form. The mysterious point on top is solved in a distant spiral galaxy that has nothing to do with the object itself. His apparent position on the top of this ongoing event is just a west from our point of view.

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Macrina Garcia Marin, an astronomical physicist at the European Space Agency who was part of the team that took the new image, says this opinion, and the great distance, also creates some other visual illusions. For example, the smaller points that appear floating in front of the cosmic hurricane are not dust; They are in fact full galaxies from behind. Double dots are only stars.

However, the alignment of the opportunity of these cosmic entities allows scientists to study a rich set of phenomena outside the earth. It is worth noting that we can see operations like accumulation at work, as she says: “The picture is great!”

Garcia Marin is particularly affected by the nature of JWST photos, at least on cosmic standards. When Protostar eventually grows up, probably after our life, Garcia Marin says: “You look at a moment in the universe.”