Amateur astronomers found these mysterious yellow balls in d
Feb 3, 2015 1:39:39 GMT -6
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Amateur astronomers found these mysterious yellow balls in deep space
But they claim that they aren't actually 'yellow', it just is the way the photos are shot in infrared
It's still pretty regardless
But they think that this is the new stage of massive star formation
[The left image shows a protostar, the middle image shows a closeup of one of the yellow balls and the far right image shows a green and red bubble.]
"Areas where green and red overlap appear yellow in infrared light. Astronomers realized that the yellow balls are patches where the green organic material overlaps with the red dust because stellar winds haven't pushed the organic material out into a halo yet. Astronomers think the yellow balls are the missing link between the birth of a star and the green and red bubbles they produce."
Thought this was unbelievable...
WOW!!!!
That is so out of my pay-grade!
Interesting nonetheless...
LINKY
Clumps of strange yellow balls have been showing up in several images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and a group of volunteers were the first to spot them after combing through thousands of photos.
These amateur astronomers were helping out with NASA's web-based Milky Way Project which relies on volunteers to help make sense of tens of thousands of photos. The project focuses on a patch of space called W33 about 13,000 light-years away where newborn stars are bursting into existence.
The volunteers started chatting about mysterious yellow balls that showed up in several photos and Spitzer scientists took notice. They are quite unique
These amateur astronomers were helping out with NASA's web-based Milky Way Project which relies on volunteers to help make sense of tens of thousands of photos. The project focuses on a patch of space called W33 about 13,000 light-years away where newborn stars are bursting into existence.
The volunteers started chatting about mysterious yellow balls that showed up in several photos and Spitzer scientists took notice. They are quite unique
But they claim that they aren't actually 'yellow', it just is the way the photos are shot in infrared
It's still pretty regardless
But they think that this is the new stage of massive star formation
There are also green bubbles with red centers surrounding the yellow balls. The green rings are halos of organic molecules blasted outward by bursts of radiation and stellar winds from the new stars. The red center is dust heated by the star. Volunteers had already spotted about 5,000 of the green and red balls, but the yellow balls are a new discovery.
[The left image shows a protostar, the middle image shows a closeup of one of the yellow balls and the far right image shows a green and red bubble.]
"Areas where green and red overlap appear yellow in infrared light. Astronomers realized that the yellow balls are patches where the green organic material overlaps with the red dust because stellar winds haven't pushed the organic material out into a halo yet. Astronomers think the yellow balls are the missing link between the birth of a star and the green and red bubbles they produce."
Thought this was unbelievable...
The yellow balls look small in the picture, but they're actually several hundred times the size of our solar system, and volunteers have spotted over 900 of them so far.
WOW!!!!
That is so out of my pay-grade!
Interesting nonetheless...
LINKY
