Re: SCIENCE And Related Scientific Subjects
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:28 pm
I really enjoy this thread, OneBard mate. Keep up the good work.OneBardGooner wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:33 pmSource BBC:
The Birth of a Star caught by the James Webb Space Telescope...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67243772
What gets me is they give these utterly banal names / titles ( HH212 ) to these amazing and miraculous events etc... Surely they should hand the naming of such things over to current great writers or poets....
Imagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like?
Well, you can get a clue from this glorious new image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Towards the centre of this object, called HH212, is a star coming into existence that is probably no more than 50,000 years old.
The scene would have looked much the same when our Sun was a similar age.
You can't actually see the glow from the protostar itself because it's hidden within a dense, spinning disc of gas and dust.
All you get are the pinky-red jets that it's shooting out in polar opposite directions.
To me it looks like an Umbilical Cord of light!