Hey Buddies,
Have you ever seen the birth of a baby star?
If not, come and see this image taken by Herschel Space Observatory. Its the image of Rosette Nebula giving birth to huge stars. Rosette is mother to many giant stars, which are many times the mass of the sun.
This great Nebula is about 130 Light-years in diameter and 10,000 times the mass of our Sun. This fabulous cloud is at a distance of 5000 Light-years from us. This image is very special to everyone, especially for the people behind the Herschel ?. Can you guess why? Yeah, it’s for the first time Herschel shows us the birth of Big stars in our galaxy. Thanks, Herschel, thanks to ESA ?.
This young, Massive protostars can become 10 times the mass of the sun. The bright smudges are dusty cocoons hiding massive protostars and the spots in the redder region of the image are the lower mass protostars which would be similar to the sun.
It is very important for us to understand the formation of this great baby stars in our galaxy. Because this can trigger the formation of next-generation stars in the cloud. We are unlucky to watch the real beauty of this amazing cloud with our naked eyes . This Herschel image shows half of the nebula and most of the Rosette cloud. Each of us should thank this superstar telescope, Herschel, for this magnificent image ?. This image is actually taken by observing the nebula’s three infrared wavelengths, colour-coded blue, green and red in the image.
– ARUN S
Image Credit: ESA and the PACS, SPIRE & HSC consortia, F. Motte (AIM Saclay,CEA/IRFU – CNRS/INSU – U.ParisDidedrot) for the HOBYS key programme
Author
