Cosmic Smokescreen: The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble Space Telescope
Astronomers investigated NGC 6530 using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. They scoured the region in the hope of finding new examples of proplyds, a particular class of illuminated protoplanetary discs surrounding newborn stars. The vast majority of proplyds have been found in only one region, the nearby Orion Nebula. This makes understanding their origin and lifetimes in other astronomical environments challenging.
Hubble’s ability to observe at infrared wavelengths—particularly with Wide Field Camera 3—have made it an indispensable tool for understanding starbirth and the origin of exoplanetary systems. In particular, Hubble was crucial to investigations of the proplyds around newly born stars in the Orion Nebula. The new NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s unprecedented observational capabilities at infrared wavelengths will complement Hubble observations by allowing astronomers to peer through the dusty envelopes around newly born stars and investigate the faintest, earliest stages of starbirth.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, European Southern Observatory (ESO), O. De Marco
Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç
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