HomeSpace NewsHubble Space Telescope offers stunning view clouded out by a future star

Hubble Space Telescope offers stunning view clouded out by a future star

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a molecular cloud of gas and dust that harbors a compact object that will soon become an infant star.

Located 652 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Serpens, CB 130–3 is what astronomers call a dense core, which is a compact agglomeration of gas and dust that acts as the building blocks for star formation, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA), a partner on the Hubble Space Telescope mission. Dense cores such as CB 130–3 are the smallest and densest types of molecular clouds. These clouds are stellar nurseries that can be the birthplaces for multitudes of stars, both singularly and in binary pairs. 

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