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NASA’s Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star

This image of HH 211 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals an outflow from a Class 0 protostar, an infantile analog of our Sun when

Take-aways:

This is a baby star imaged in stunning detail

Stars are born violently - there's hot gas striking the other gas and dust around it, making these amazing patterns

This particular baby star will one day be like the Sun 💖

4/2/25: We'll be closed tonight due to clouds and rain. We'll try again next week.

Mosaic of the Eagle Nebula, June 6, 2015. Image Credit: Adam Gustafson | Jamie Kern | BSU Observatory.

Imaged in luminance and photometric R, V and B filters. Approximately 2 hours total exposure time.

The Eagle nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are born. 

Wed. Oct. 22: We'll be open tonight from 7 - 8 pm. We expect some clouds, but we should still be able to catch some nice glimpses of the sky. Saturn is still the star of the show!

Many things in space stay the same for a human lifetime, but not the Bat Shadow. Hubble pictures taken 404 days apart show it “flapping” as the shadow changes position. It’s the result of a saddle-shaped disk: https://bit.ly/3Y5qu7W

Picture of the Day!

NGC 6188 Nebula is also known as the Firebird Nebula. It is an emission nebula located near the edge of a vast, dark molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, approximately 4,000 light-years from Earth.

Did you know that there are 5 known dwarf planets in our solar system? Everyone knows Pluto, but there is also Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

Info from: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/#n6

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