2021年06月23日 STARFORGE: A Star Formation Simulation Video & Text Credit: Michael Y. Grudić (Northwestern U.) et al., STARFORGE Collaboration; Music: Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 in E Minor (Frédéric Chopin) Explanation: How do stars form? Most form in giant molecular clouds located in the central disk […]
2021年06月22日 HD 163296: Jet from a Star in Formation Image Credit: Visible: VLT/MUSE (ESO); Radio: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Explanation: How are jets created during star formation? No one is sure, although recent images of the young star system HD 163296 are quite illuminating. The central star in the fe
2021年05月18日 Jets from the Necklace Nebula Image Credit: ESA, Hubble, NASA; Processing: K. Noll Explanation: What celestial body wears the Necklace Nebula? First, analyses indicate that the Necklace is a planetary nebula, a gas cloud emitted by a star toward the end of its life. Also, what appears to
2021年04月27日 Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star Video Illustration Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Explanation: What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart — but how? It’s not the high gravitational attraction itself that’s the pro
2021年01月17日 Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A Image Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray) Explanation: The jets emanating from Centaurus A are over a million light years long. These jets of streaming plasma, expelled by a giant
2020年12月22日 Trifid Pillars and Jets Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope, HLA; Processing: Advait Mehla Explanation: Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings, but they are being slowly eroded away by a hostile environme
2020年8月31日 SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar Animation Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Explanation: SS 433 is one of the most exotic star systems known. Its unremarkable name stems from its inclusion in a catalog of Milky Way stars which emit radiation characteristic of atomic hydrogen. Its r
