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Stars and Galaxies Research at JPL. The nighttime sky is magical. The dark curtain sprinkled with tiny dots of light has inspired songs, sparked romances, and prompted humans through the ages to gaze at the twinkling scene overhead and wonder what’s out there and what it all means. Some of those humans are scientists and engineers at JPL, who ...
18 de feb. de 2014 · Transcript. NuSTAR is untangling the mystery of how stars explode. Here we're looking at a simulation of a supernova explosion of a massive star that's collapsing in on itself. Shown in color is the temperature of the gas as the star is exploding. What happens is that hot bubbles at the center of the core blast out through the shockwave ...
The first stars formed maybe a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, and the peak of star formation occurred after 3 or 4 billion years. Galaxies are giant collections of stars and dark matter. Less than 10% of all the baryons (protons, neutrons, electrons — the kind of matter stars and we are made of) wind up in stars.
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins. June 13, 2024. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars. Scientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the ...
July 12, 2022. One of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, this landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby young star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Full Image Details.
2 de jul. de 2024 · Its stars are located at a distance of about 1000 light years from us, and they formed about 200 million years ago. The cluster was discovered by Greek-Roman astronomer Ptolemy in the year 130, hence its other name. M6 is about half the apparent size of M7, and contains fewer stars. It's also a bit farther away from us, at around 1600 light years.
Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
10 de jun. de 2009 · Molecules around stars leave imprints in their light, which the spectrograph can detect. The results revealed three stars with clear signs of youth, for example, certain warm, dense gases. These youthful features are found in other places in the galaxy where stars are being formed. "It is amazing to me that we have found these stars," said Ramirez.
6 de mar. de 2009 · About the mission. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Using data from the Kepler mission and the extended K2 mission, scientists have identified more than 2,800 candidate exoplanets and have confirmed more than 2,600 of these as ...
31 de jul. de 2024 · All the stars in the sky share a common origin in giant clouds of gas and dust called nebulas. And one such stellar nursery, the Lagoon Nebula, is well placed to observe in the August sky. The Lagoon Nebula will feel familiar to you if you've ever observed the Orion Nebula – with the latter being just a bit brighter.
