She’s so lucky. She’s a protostar✨ ⁣

 She’s so lucky. She’s a protostar :

⁣@NASAHubble captured this relatively close-by star-forming region that lies within the Milky Way in the constellation Scorpius, about 5900 light-years from Earth.⁣

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A massive star is thought to be located in the center — about 30 times the mass of our Sun — that is still in the process of forming. At the near-infrared wavelengths to which Hubble is sensitive, the central region appears dark because there is so much obscuring dust in the way. However near-infrared light leaks out mainly on two sides — upper left and lower right — where a powerful jet from the massive protostar has cleared away the dust. Multi-wavelength images including this incredible Hubble scene will help us gain a better understanding of how the most massive, brightest stars in our galaxy are born.⁣

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Image Description: A nebula with stars. The center of the image from top-left to bottom-right glows brightly with light from where new stars are being formed, and is partially covered by dark dust. Colored layers of gas and dust billow out across the rest of the image. The nebula is speckled with foreground stars with large diffraction spikes.⁣

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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan⁣

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17 February 2024