More flowers for Valentine’s Day? NASA opts for something more original for lovers. This year he gives us an image of a spectacular cluster of stars: The 3070 NGC or NGC 2070 star formation, better known as the tarantula nebula.
NGC 2070 is 160,000 light years from Earth, in the galaxy called the great cloud of Magellan. Scientists often photograph it with the hope of better understanding how the stars are formed, because here are born stellar bodies for 25 million years and is one of the brightest and populated nurseries near us. In their heart, the most massive stars are sighted, all of them young: they only have 1 or 2 million years old, while our sun is about 5,000 million years old.
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The photograph shared by NASA compiles the information of different telescopes: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter, and the X -Ray Observatory Chandra.
A bouquet of stars is better than one of roses
What seems to be a beautiful cosmic ray of Valentine’s Day is a composite image of data collected by several observatories and instruments. The area in blue and green tone was obtained by the Chandra telescope; which had to observe the perimeter for 23 days and captured 3,615 X -ray sources. For its part, the Hubble telescope obtained the data corresponding to the yellow zone; The Radio del Atacama Large Millimeter compiled what we observe in orange. Finally, What appears in pink or purple are the X -ray hot gases, modeled in the bouquet of flowers by the powerful winds generated by cosmic explosions.
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Future coverage
The data set compiled by the instruments will serve in the future for better cosmic references, and for the study of X -ray emissions in stellar training regions. “The long observation time allows astronomers to look NASA.
In the future, astronomers can study the behavior of stars in binary systems, observe the evolution of star bodies and better understand their birth. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy this Valentine’s gift, courtesy of NASA.
Article originally published in Wired Italy. Adapted by Alondra Flores.
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