🔬 Science 1d ago · Carolyn Collins Petersen

It's a Ghost! No, It's a Stellar Crèche!

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It's a Ghost! No, It's a Stellar Crèche!
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Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) zeroed in on a wispy-looking region of the Carina Nebula and found a ghostly looking cloud seemingly floating in isolation among the other clouds of gas and dust. Just in time for Hallowe'en, although, it turns out that little cloud isn't the soul of departed stars. Instead, it's a region of the nebula has been actively engaged in creating batches of hot, young new stars.

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