Stars Birth May Have Triggered Another Star Birth

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nrao_Gallery_starformationundernraoB  

Credit: Osorio et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF.

Protostar FIR 3 (HOPS 370) with outflow that may have triggered the formation of younger protostar FIR 4 (HOPS 108), in the Orion star-forming region. Pullouts are individual VLA images of each protostar. (au = astronomical unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, about 93 million miles.)

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Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=7667

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Collage
Object Name
FIR 3 • HOPS 370 • FIR 4 • HOPS 108
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Protostar

Distance Details Distance

Universescale1
1,400 light years

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
VLA -
Nrao_gallery_starformationundernraob_1280
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ID
Gallery_starformationundernraoB
Subject Category
B.3.1.1  
Subject Name
FIR 3, HOPS 370, FIR 4, HOPS 108
Credits
Osorio et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF.
Release Date
Lightyears
1,400
Redshift
1,400
Reference Url
https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=7667
Type
Collage
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
VLA
Instrument
Color Assignment
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
NRAO/AUI/NSF
URL
https://public.nrao.edu
Name
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Email
outreach@nrao.edu
Telephone
Address
520 Edgemont Road
City
Charlottesville
State/Province
Virginia
Postal Code
22903
Country
USA
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Publisher
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Publisher ID
nrao
Resource ID
Resource URL
https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/starformationundernraoB.jpg
Related Resources
Metadata Date
2018-05-10T10:03:52-04:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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Universescalefull
1,400 light years

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