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Top Stories
The Herschel Space Observatory
has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009. The mission, led by the European Space Agency with important
participation from NASA, will use infrared light to explore our cosmic roots, addressing questions of how stars and galaxies are born.
The new "sneak preview" image was taken in an early attempt to demonstrate that Herschel works, and, in particular, that its telescope
is focused and correctly aligned with the science instruments. It shows the Whirlpool
galaxy, which lies relatively nearby, about 35 million light-years away, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
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Combined observations of the star-forming cloud Cepheus B from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the
Spitzer Space Telescope
provide fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.
The research shows that radiation from massive stars may trigger the formation of many more stars than previously thought.
Cepheus B is a cloud of mainly cool molecular hydrogen located about 2,400 light years from Earth.
There are hundreds of very young stars inside and around the cloud
- ranging from a few million years old outside the cloud to less than a million in the interior -
making it an important testing ground for star formation.
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Featured Presentation
Where did we come from? Are we alone? Using infrared technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
will help answer these questions and more. Infrared telescopes allow us to study celestial
objects too hidden, too distant or too cool for us to see using other means.
These hidden worlds, once revealed, may give us clues to the origins of the universe.
Learn more by viewing
"An Infrared Search for Origins".
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IPAC Legacy Gallery Highlight
The familiar winter sky constellation Orion takes on a spectacular guise in the infrared, as seen in this
false-color image constructed from data collected by
IRAS--the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
New processing techniques have been used to enhance faint details and remove the instrumental artifacts
seen in earlier IRAS images.
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Education Highlight
Our Sun has been steadily fusing hydrogen into helium for the last 5 billion years, and astronomers predict that it will
continue to do the same thing for another 5 billion years, until it runs out of hydrogen. But what happens then? Does the Sun just turn off?
Learn more by watching the latest video from our award winning Ask an Astronomer series:
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