The HII region is a shining plasma and gas cloud, which can be hundreds of light years wide, in which star formations take place. Very young stars shine through time and the matter around them turns into shining clouds with starlight, these regions are known as the HII zone. The brightness of the HII regions stems from their interaction with ultraviolet radiation from young stars surrounded by hydrogen gas clouds. Hubble took a photo of the star birth region: The Tarantula Nebula is 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way galaxy. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, this region is about 1000 light years wide. The region in question has a dense concentration of stars, called superstar clusters. The superstar cluster usually consists of a large number of young and massive stars around the HII region. A HII zone with a superstar cluster is surrounded by a dust cocoon. Astronomers have studied the LHA 120-N 150 to learn more about the environment where giant stars form. Theoretical models of the formation of giant stars suggest that they should occur within the clusters of stars, but observations show that up to 10 percent of the clusters are formed in isolation. The Tarantula Nebula is the perfect cluster to solve this puzzle because the massive stars in it can be found both as members of clusters and isolated. With the help of Hubble, astronomers are trying to find out if the isolated stars that appear in the nebula are really formed alone, or if they are moving away from their star ‘siblings’. However, all these studies have some difficulties. Because young stars, especially those with mass, are very similar to dense dust clumps before they are completely formed. Here LHA 120-N 150 is made up of such objects, a mixture of unclassified sources: some are young star objects, some are probably clusters of dust. Aware of the situation, scientists will resort to detailed analysis and observations to look for an unanswered question about the origin of mass stars.
title: “Hubble Space Telescope Viewing The Birthplace Of Giant Stars” ShowToc: true date: “2023-04-04” author: “Tiffany Chipps”
The HII region is a shining plasma and gas cloud, which can be hundreds of light years wide, in which star formations take place. Very young stars shine through time and the matter around them turns into shining clouds with starlight, these regions are known as the HII zone. The brightness of the HII regions stems from their interaction with ultraviolet radiation from young stars surrounded by hydrogen gas clouds. Hubble took a photo of the star birth region: The Tarantula Nebula is 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way galaxy. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, this region is about 1000 light years wide. The region in question has a dense concentration of stars, called superstar clusters. The superstar cluster usually consists of a large number of young and massive stars around the HII region. A HII zone with a superstar cluster is surrounded by a dust cocoon. Astronomers have studied the LHA 120-N 150 to learn more about the environment where giant stars form. Theoretical models of the formation of giant stars suggest that they should occur within the clusters of stars, but observations show that up to 10 percent of the clusters are formed in isolation. The Tarantula Nebula is the perfect cluster to solve this puzzle because the massive stars in it can be found both as members of clusters and isolated. With the help of Hubble, astronomers are trying to find out if the isolated stars that appear in the nebula are really formed alone, or if they are moving away from their star ‘siblings’. However, all these studies have some difficulties. Because young stars, especially those with mass, are very similar to dense dust clumps before they are completely formed. Here LHA 120-N 150 is made up of such objects, a mixture of unclassified sources: some are young star objects, some are probably clusters of dust. Aware of the situation, scientists will resort to detailed analysis and observations to look for an unanswered question about the origin of mass stars.
