November 18, 2021

The G035.20-0.74 nebula (Image NASA, ESA, and J. Tan (Chalmers University of Technology); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))

NASA has released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the nebula cataloged as G035.20-0.74, a star nursery in the constellation Aquila. In this specific case, the stars that are born are really massive, B-Type blue giants that are up to five times hotter than the Sun. Their formation is among the astronomers’ research objects and within G035.20- 0.74 there’s a massive protostar that is emitting jets of gas. It’s a phenomenon known in protostars but it’s difficult to observe in the ones so massive, which tend to be surrounded by larger quantities of dust that hide them.