{"id":174303,"date":"2023-10-16T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/hubble-snaps-hotbed-of-high-mass-star-formation"},"modified":"2023-10-16T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:27:34","slug":"hubble-snaps-hotbed-of-high-mass-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/hubble-snaps-hotbed-of-high-mass-star-formation","title":{"rendered":"Hubble snaps hotbed of high-mass star formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-snaps-hotbed-of-high-mass-star-formation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rich dust clouds that are responsible for producing these giant stars are blocking the light from Hubble\u2019s view. The star and the jet of material it is emitting are visible near the very center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe small, bright orange streak is a cavity in the dust carved out by the ferocity of the jet as it streams towards us. By breaking through its dusty cocoon, the jet reveals light from the protostar, but there is still so much dust that the light is \u201creddened\u201d to a fiery orange. The massive protostar lies at the very lower-left tip of this cavity,\u201d NASA wrote in a post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Jet-setting through a star formation hotbed!The glimmering, star-forming region seen in this #HubbleFriday view is called G35.2\u20130.7N. The spectacular light show is caused by a powerful jet of matter ejecting from a very young star: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3twrzbE\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3twrzbE<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/hLEwFDqZCy\">pic.twitter.com\/hLEwFDqZCy<\/a> \u2014 Hubble (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAHubble\">@NASAHubble<\/a>) October 13, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rich dust clouds that are responsible for producing these giant stars are blocking the light from Hubble\u2019s view. The star and the jet of material it is emitting are visible near the very center. \u201cThe small, bright orange streak is a cavity in the dust carved out by the ferocity of the jet as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}