Formation of Star; Picture Source: nasahubble @ Instagram

Formation of a Star: HH24

On May 4 Dr. Ken Carpenter, Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has posted on Instagram about the formation of a new star.

In the caption of the post he wrote, “Partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star’s “force awakens” as it shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.

This isn’t in a galaxy far, far away. It’s in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at a distance of about 1,350 light-years.”

Dr. Ken Carpenter shared on Instagram the images of HH24 (Herbig and Haro). This is a part of HH24 Orion B Molecular cloud complex. This is not too far away from the Earth. This is in our own galaxy, The “Milky Way”.
HH24 created collection of smaller objects in space and this is of interest as these provide the catalogue of developing star systems.

It is a part of Orion B molecular cloud complex which is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars located 1350 light-years away inside our home galaxy. In the image shown, the new-born star is partially covered by thick dark clouds of dust and gas from both sides.

At first it’s simply a collection of dust and gas, area where there’s more dust and gas which starts to be pulled in by gravity and ultimately this starts collecting into protesters, areas of dust and gas that are going to build high enough material to finally turn into stars.

But for such creation there is a requirement of a nuclear reactor at the center of these stars. But not like fission reaction as in case of nuclear power plants on the earth infact, it is the ever elusive fusion reaction.

This is always a matter of curiosity that how Hydrogen atoms fuse together to form an infinite source of power. That’s what powering the universe.

Hydrogen atoms under immense pressures and temperatures undergo nuclear fusion reaction and make a helium atom. This process creates extreme amount of heat and light. Here one can say that a star is being born. During the turning on, these newborn stars shoot twin jets of lights and materials into space from around and behind the clouds, due to which, one cant’s see the central object.

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