Cosmoview Episode 69: Radiant Protostars and Shadowy Clouds Clash in Stellar Nursery
The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149. These contrasting regions make this object a prime target of research on star formation.
Credit:Images and Videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab) Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Bartmann/D. de Martin Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin Music: Stellardrone - Airglow
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2313a |
| Release date: | May 18, 2023, 8:39 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2313 |
| Duration: | 01 m 11 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
