Starship Asterisk*

harry wrote:Do you not find it amazing the images and the beauty of the cosmos?

As for filaments, filaments are filaments small and large and their formation is extraordinary, how they connect from one object to the other like a web similar to the brain, having electrical impulses interconnecting each.

As for star formation filaments play an important part in sparking and rejuvinating stars.

harry wrote:Its amazing how star formation occurs along filaments. The origin of these filaments holds the secrets to the universe.

neufer wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1236449/Let-light-Herschel-telescope-images-birth-stars-1-000-light-years-Earth.html wrote:
<<Let there be light: Herschel telescope images show birth of stars 1,000 light years from Earth
By Wil Longbottom / Daily Mail 16th December 2009

This amazing image taken from the recently launched Herschel telescope shows the birth of up to 700 stars 1,000 light years from Earth. Released by the European Space Agency, the previously unseen stellar nursery has been described as among the most important images obtained from space in decades.


This image from the recently launched Herschel telescope shows the birth of up to
700 stars and clouds of 'stardust', which all life is made from, in the Aquila constellation

Discovery: Scientists hope the Herschel telescope, which was recently launched into space, will reveal some of the history of star formation

The image, taken using two of Herschel's instruments, shows a dark cloud 1,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, or the Eagle. It covers an area 65 light years across and is so shrouded in dust that no previous infrared satellite has been able to see into it. Thanks to Herschel's superior sensitivity at the longest infrared wavelengths, astronomers are able to get their first picture of the interior of this cloud and previously invisible 'stardust'. This is what galaxies, stars, planets and all life is made from and can help scientists follow the life cycle of the cosmos.

Bruce Swinyard, from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is a member of the research team which designed Herschel's Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, one of three instruments which provide the telescope's 'eyes'.

The telescope's infrared capability allows it to look deep into space at galaxies which thrived when the Universe was roughly half to a fifth of its present age. This is a period in cosmic history when it is thought star formation was at its most prolific.

Professor Swinyard told the BBC that by looking at 'young galaxies', Herschel is able to reveal some of the history of star formation. He said that the thousands of galaxies the telescope had detected would allow researchers to test models of galaxy formation, and to uncover the chemical processes that make stardust.>>
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1236449/Let-light-Herschel-telescope-images-birth-stars-1-000-light-years-Earth.html wrote:
<<Let there be light: Herschel telescope images show birth of stars 1,000 light years from Earth
By Wil Longbottom / Daily Mail 16th December 2009

This amazing image taken from the recently launched Herschel telescope shows the birth of up to 700 stars 1,000 light years from Earth. Released by the European Space Agency, the previously unseen stellar nursery has been described as among the most important images obtained from space in decades.


This image from the recently launched Herschel telescope shows the birth of up to
700 stars and clouds of 'stardust', which all life is made from, in the Aquila constellation

Discovery: Scientists hope the Herschel telescope, which was recently launched into space, will reveal some of the history of star formation

The image, taken using two of Herschel's instruments, shows a dark cloud 1,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, or the Eagle. It covers an area 65 light years across and is so shrouded in dust that no previous infrared satellite has been able to see into it. Thanks to Herschel's superior sensitivity at the longest infrared wavelengths, astronomers are able to get their first picture of the interior of this cloud and previously invisible 'stardust'. This is what galaxies, stars, planets and all life is made from and can help scientists follow the life cycle of the cosmos.

Bruce Swinyard, from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is a member of the research team which designed Herschel's Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, one of three instruments which provide the telescope's 'eyes'.

The telescope's infrared capability allows it to look deep into space at galaxies which thrived when the Universe was roughly half to a fifth of its present age. This is a period in cosmic history when it is thought star formation was at its most prolific.

Professor Swinyard told the BBC that by looking at 'young galaxies', Herschel is able to reveal some of the history of star formation. He said that the thousands of galaxies the telescope had detected would allow researchers to test models of galaxy formation, and to uncover the chemical processes that make stardust.>>
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Star*Hopper wrote:Hubble (Ver.1) will always & forever live in my mind as that gag about being proof you shouldn't let General Motors grind your mirrors. "Didn't anyone notice the 'OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR'?"

bystander wrote:"... Maybe Herschel needs corrective surgery like Hubble did. I hope not, chances for that are vanishingly small."

"...In initial tests, Herschel's cameras have combined to deliver this spectacular view along the plane of the Milky Way in the constellation of the Southern Cross. Spanning some 2 degrees the premier, false-color, far-infrared view captures our galaxy's cold dust clouds in extreme detail, showing a remarkable, connected maze of filaments and star-forming regions."