Posted on 12/01/2020 3:08:04 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Are stars still forming in the Milky Way's satellite galaxies? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulas, NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured here in the center of a Hubble Space Telescope image. A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a mere 210,000 light-years distant in the constellation of the Toucan (Tucana). Exploring NGC 346, astronomers have identified a population of embryonic stars strung along the dark, intersecting dust lanes visible here on the right. Still collapsing within their natal clouds, the stellar infants' light is reddened by the intervening dust. Toward the top of the frame is another star cluster with intrinsically older and redder stars. A small, irregular galaxy, the SMC itself represents a type of galaxy more common in the early Universe. These small galaxies, though, are thought to be building blocks for the larger galaxies present today.
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It’s pretty cool when a scientific field can reaffirm one’s faith.
I agree. I am an EE from UF BTW.
Looks like two cats enjoying some Christmas music.
I knew I liked you...
There’s a ferret at bottom left, being hotly pursued by a salamander. :-)
I thought it looked like a snake and a zombie fighting over a cheeseburger.
Sorry but no one has ever seen a single star forming.
It’s just impossible due to Boyles gas laws.
The amount of energy needed Hypothetically to form a star is astronomical and where would the energy come from?
Scientist believe that a star is forming because they see a star getting brighter. On the contrary, it’s just the dust clearing in front of the star that makes them believe it is forming....
Ha! Now I’m hungry and it’s all your fault! :-)
Yes, as my faith has deepened over the years my amazement at God’s universe just increases. And after reading the news stories preceding this article, it is a welcome reminder of Whom is in charge and will make it all right again.
Twinkle twinkle little star.
E=IR.
From an ME.
Hubble is still ticking. I am curious to see what the Webb telescope images look like. It is supposed to be primarily an IR telescope.
Yes, a more powerful infrared scope will be able to look deeper into space and further back in time, seeing galaxies so distant that their light has been red-shifted into the invisible infrared portion of the spectrum.
Interestingly, many of the galaxies that we can see now at the ‘edge’ of the observable universe, in the Hubble Deep Field, etc, are so distant that the ‘visible light’ we see from them actually started out at shorter wavelength (higher frequency) portions of the EM spectrum, such as UV.
PV=nRT
PV=nRT : I just happened to open my PChem and Thermodynamics books last week as I was rearranging my books.(Started in ChemE and switched to EE)
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