As an excellent photographer, the Hubble Space Telescope has already amassed quite a large photo gallery during its thirty-year career. Also includes images of glowing wisps, rare Herbig-Har objects captured in incredible detail.
A look at the CVs
Hubble, as the space telescope is called for short, probably doesn’t need to be introduced in detail, especially to fans of space-related news. It was brought to a height of 600 kilometers above the Earth in 1990 by the American space shuttle Discovery. Since then, he has been photographing space bodies and can capture sharp detail the size of a small coin. Therefore, it significantly helps to deepen knowledge of the universe.
Herbig-Har objects are a kind of nebula, transient phenomena arising in the period of young stars that last only a few thousand years. In the form of heavy gas, they are ejected from the star at speeds of up to 250,000 kilometers per hour. Since this is a transient phenomenon that lasts 10-20 thousand years and then disappears somewhere in “nowhere”, it is difficult to record it. “It seems like a long time, but in astronomy it’s actually a short time before there is a cosmic phenomenon,” Australian National University astrologer B. Tucker told the ABC website.
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A spectacular show
It’s not every day that you see Herbig-Har items. Hubble discovered a cluster of five Herbig-Har objects in NGC 1333, a reflection nebula in the constellation Perseus about 1,000 light-years from Earth in 2021, followed by HH 1 and HH 2 in the Orion Nebula a few months later. Its Wide Field Camera 3 lenses caught their jets of blue gas from the dust cloud. And as Trucker explained, “… in the center is something we call a protostar. There, the gas from the previous star collapses into a new young star. And according to him, you can see the birth of a new star system.
If the birth can be captured, then it’s a spectacular sight. The gas dissipates, mixes and spreads, creating a rainbow show. Here because “…show nice bright bright edges,” Tucker also clarified. “The great thing about Hubble is that you can see things in both the visible and infrared,” Tucker says “…you get a nice full picture of what’s going on.”
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Herbig-Har objects were first observed in the 19th century by the American astronomer SW Burnham. In the 1940s they were designated as a separate type of nebula. The objects were studied in detail by G. Herbig and G. Haro. They were named after them.
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Resources: www.sci.news/astronomy, www.abc.net.au
