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    referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star formation includes the study of the...
    48 KB (5,543 words) - 21:20, 1 October 2024
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    This is a list of star-forming regions located in the Milky Way Galaxy and in the Local Group. Star formation occurs in molecular clouds which become...
    8 KB (513 words) - 08:19, 24 February 2024
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    disk around a young star. Nearly 180 proplyds have been discovered in the Orion Nebula. Images of proplyds in other star-forming regions are rare, while Orion...
    25 KB (2,575 words) - 14:46, 24 August 2024
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    timescales. Masers in star-forming regions are known to move across the sky along with the material that is flowing out from the forming star(s). Also, since...
    31 KB (3,823 words) - 00:36, 27 August 2024
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    Nebula (redirect from Nebulous star)
    cosmic dust. Nebulae are often star-forming regions, such as in the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. In these regions, the formations of gas, dust...
    21 KB (2,865 words) - 03:53, 30 September 2024
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    Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (category Star-forming regions)
    star-forming regions to the Solar System. This cloud covers an angular area of 4.5° × 6.5° on the celestial sphere. It consists of two major regions of...
    12 KB (1,316 words) - 01:57, 3 August 2024
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    Lagoon Nebula (category Star-forming regions)
    Lagoon Nebula and its Vicinity". In Bo Reipurth (ed.). Handbook of Star-Forming Regions: Volume 2 The Southern Sky. Astronomical Society of the Pacific....
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    Rosette Nebula (category Star-forming regions)
    molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which...
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    such as the adaptive optics system at the Keck telescopes, to study star-forming regions and the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way known...
    26 KB (2,235 words) - 15:32, 29 September 2024
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    Serpens–Aquila Rift (category Star-forming regions)
    these discrete star-forming regions are part of the same star-forming complex. Distances to molecular clouds and star-forming regions in the Milky Way...
    15 KB (1,551 words) - 20:00, 30 July 2024
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    the nearest star-forming regions of the local Orion Arm, to which the Sun belongs. The relative proximity of these star-forming regions spurred the Gould...
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    Orion Arm (section Form)
    than 30 methanol (6.7-GHz) and water (22-GHz) masers in high-mass, star-forming regions within a few kiloparsecs of the Sun. Their measurement has accuracy...
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    H II region (redirect from HII regions)
    surmised that H II regions must be regions in which new stars were forming. Over a period of several million years, a cluster of stars will form in an H II region...
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    Omega Nebula (category Star-forming regions)
    solar masses. It is considered one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions of our galaxy. Its local geometry is similar to the Orion Nebula...
    12 KB (1,332 words) - 01:54, 17 September 2024
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    Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle...
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    limit at 912 Å is almost completely absorbed by neutral gas around star-forming regions of galaxies. In the rest frame of the emitting galaxy, the emitted...
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    NGC 6334 (category Star-forming regions)
    star-forming regions have been identified from infrared and radio emissions. Four of these sites have formed H II regions. Spitzer view of the star-forming...
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  • responsible for intense episodes of radio emission from the planet's polar regions. Volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io injects gas into Jupiter's magnetosphere...
    22 KB (2,367 words) - 02:08, 27 March 2024
  • very-long-baseline interferometry observations of maser emission in high-mass star-forming regions (HMSFR) placed tight constraints on combinations of kinematic parameters...
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    Trifid Nebula (category Star-forming regions)
    as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way's Scutum–Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by...
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