The object stands out as extremely bright inside a large, chemically rich cloud of material, as shown in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
A NASA-led team of scientists thinks the star – which is about 10 times as massive as our sun and emits about 20,000 times as much energy – is a newly forming protostar.
That was a big surprise because the region had not been known as a stellar nursery before.
But the presence of a nearby interstellar bubble, which indicates the presence of a recently formed massive star, also supports this idea.
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard
Kitty O'Brien Joyner (July 11, 1916 – August 16, 1993) was an American
electrical engineer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering] with
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The “Making Space for Girls” challenge is a partnership between SpaceKids Global, a Florida-based, non-profit established to use space exploration to engage children in STEAM learning and the Girl Scouts
Our fair planet sports a curved, sunlit crescent against the black backdrop of space in this stunning photograph.
From the unfamiliar perspective, the Earth is small and, like a telescopic
