Following the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s release of the first images of a vehicle that promises to expand our knowledge of space, the US Space Agency has released new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990. Never-before-seen photos of celestial clouds and red supergiant Betelgeuse prove that the device remains important to science.

The photographs were published jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Photograph of many sky clouds that you can check belowshows the region of the Orion Nebula, the site of star formation around the space object Haro HH 505, located at a distance of about 1000 light-years from Earth.

NASA explains that nebula regions are associated with newborn stars. Nebulae form when stellar wind or gas ejected by stars form shock waves as they collide with gas and dust at high speeds.. “These ejected winds are visible as graceful curvilinear structures at the top and bottom of this image. Their interaction with the large-scale flow of gas and dust from the nebula’s core distorts them into sinuous curves.”NASA reports.

Red supergiant Betelgeuse

The red supergiant Betelgeuse produced a giant explosion, about 400 billion times greater than the emissions of our system caused by the Sun. Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars known to mankind, located about 530 light years from Earth. New astro information has been revealed after a team of astronomers analyzed images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope between January 2019 and March 2020.

For image above one can trace the moment of the explosion and how the supergiant star lost a significant part of its mass, represented by a black cloud. Scientists note that the ejected mass is several times the size of our moon.

NASA notes that an unusual event “something that has never been before in the behavior of an ordinary star”. The researchers note that the star is slowly recovering from this event. Andrea Dupree, a scientist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Astrophysical Center in Massachusetts, USA, commented that this is the first time scientists have observed a mass ejection from the surface of a star. “This is a completely new phenomenon that we can directly observe and resolve surface details with Hubble. We are watching stellar evolution in real time.”commented.

The space agency said the explosion happened in 2019 and took months to complete. The event was so large that even amateur observers could easily observe it, because Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars that can be observed in the night sky. Scientists are now hoping that the new James Webb telescope will be able to continue studying “its little brother” and get more images of the material ejected by the supergiant star.

Source: G1

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