Toile 30 Doradus

The largest and brightest région of star formation in the local Group of galaxies, y compris la Milky Way, is called 30 Doradus (or, informally, the Tarantula Nebula). Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, 30 Doradus has long been étued by astronomers who want to better understandhow like the Sun are born and evolve. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has frequently looked at 30 Doradus over the lifetime of the mission, oder under the direction of Dr. Leisa Townsley who passed away in the summer of 2022. These data veut continuer to be collected and analyzed, providing opportunities for scientists both now and in the future to learn more about star formation and its related processes. This new composite Image combines the X-ray data from Chandra observations of 30 Doradus with an an infrarouge image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, that released in the fall 2022. The X-rays (royal blue and purple) reveal gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by shock waves — similar to sonic booms from airplanes — generated by the winds from massive stars. Donc, The Chandra data identify the remains of supernova explosions, which will ultimately send importantes such oxygen and carbon into space where they will become of the next generation of stars. The infrarouge data from JWST (red, orange, green et light blue) spectacular canvases of cooler gas that provide the raw ingredients for future stars. Donc, le view de JWST reveals "protostars," that is, stars in their infancy, just igniting their stellar engines. La composition chimique des 30 doradus est différente de la fraîcheur des nébulas found in the Milky Way. Instead it represents the conditions in our galaxy that existed several billion years when were forming at a much faster pace than astronomers see today. This, combined with its relative proximity and brightness, means that 30 Doradus provider de scientists with an opportunity to learn more about stars formed in our galaxy in the distant past. Le Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program de la NASA. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center Controls science operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operoperations from Burlington, Massachusetts. Le James Webb Space Telescope est le premier observatoire mondial des sciences spatiales. Webb veut des mystères solaires dans notre système solaire, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is in international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (Agence spatiale européenne) et l'Agence spatiale canadienne.