Good morning.
It’s a warm day ahead for Whitewater: sunny and ninety-one degrees.
For students across the city, school begins today. Best wishes for a year of accomplishment and adventure.
Using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have created an animation of early stellar formation:
Using 14 years’ worth of Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have animated the chaos inside the supersonic jets of newborn stars.
Hubble took still photographs of the jets from 1994 through 2008, and animators used image-morphing models to create seamless videos that put the jets into motion….
High-speed jets shoot out of distant pulsars, black holes and other objects across the universe, but the closest ones come from newborn stars within the Milky Way some 1,350 light-years away. George Herbig and Guillermo Haro first spotted these nearby jets in the 1950s, lending them the name Herbig-Haro objects. Astronomers have since discovered roughly 400 of them, and more than 100,000 likely exist in the Milky Way alone.
Beautiful and fascinating.