The IR cameras of the device captured the birth of a star in the comic cloud L1527.
The star is not yet visible, it is in the center of a cloud that looks like an hourglass or a moth. The protodisk is seen edge-on and appears as a dark line in the image. The glow from the rudimentary star travels above and below it, casting light on cavities in the surrounding gas and dust. Orange and blue clouds represent cavities resulting from the release of material from L1527. The proto-formation itself is 100 thousand years old, which makes it a class 0 protostar.
NASA said that the L1527 cloud will accumulate mass and shrink, the temperature of its core will steadily increase, and as a result, all this will lead to nuclear fusion and the birth of a star.
The star is not yet visible, it is in the center of a cloud that looks like an hourglass or a moth. The protodisk is seen edge-on and appears as a dark line in the image. The glow from the rudimentary star travels above and below it, casting light on cavities in the surrounding gas and dust. Orange and blue clouds represent cavities resulting from the release of material from L1527. The proto-formation itself is 100 thousand years old, which makes it a class 0 protostar.
NASA said that the L1527 cloud will accumulate mass and shrink, the temperature of its core will steadily increase, and as a result, all this will lead to nuclear fusion and the birth of a star.
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