Look … Astronomers take photos of nearby galaxies that reveal the location of stars

Cairo – Samia Sayed – Astronomers have captured images of nearby galaxies that reveal the location of young stars as the gas surrounding them heats up, and the new sightings look like colorful cosmic fireworks, obtained at Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the images show different components of galaxies with distinct colors.

The combination of these observations and data from the ALMA telescope allowed the team to shed new light on what drives gas clouds for star formation.

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Astronomers know that stars are born in gas clouds, but what causes star formation and how galaxies unfold remains a mystery.

Scientists have discovered 30,000 hot gas nebulae across 15 million spectra and 100,000 cold gas regions in 90 nearby galaxies to create an image of star formation.

Scientists hope future teams can use this data to learn more about how stars of all sizes form and use gas for their growth.

nearby galaxies

A team of researchers from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, along with other ESO members, scanned galaxies for “star births” to generate this data.

the stars are born

“For the first time, we are solving individual units of star formation over a wide range of locations and environments in a well-representative sample of different types of galaxies,” says Eric Emsellem, astronomer at ESO in Germany .

“We can directly observe the gas that generates the stars, see the same young stars and witness their evolution through different stages,” he added.