Space Flower Spotted by Gemini Telescope in Large Magellan Cloud

Using Gemini South Telescope, NSF's Noirlab astronomers imaged a beautiful nebula around the young open cluster NGC 2040.

NGC 2040 It is about 160,000 light years away from Earth, the constellation of Dorado.

This cluster, also known as the Cal 60 or ESO 56-164, resides within the large Magellan cloud, a satellite d-star galaxy of the Milky Way.

NGC 2040 is a so-called OB association, usually a stellar group containing stars between 10 and 100 stars O and B.

“O- and B-spectral types of stars live a short life of just millions of years, burning very hot before they explode like supernovae during that time,” Noirlab astronomers said in a statement.

“The energy released by these massive star explosions will be fed into the formation of NGC structures in the 2040s, while the material emitted sowing the growth of the next generation of stars.”

Most of our galaxy stars are thought to have been born in the OB Association, as well as NGC 2040.

“NGC 2040 is part of a large structure of interstellar gas known as LH 88, one of the largest active star-forming regions within the large Magellan cloud,” the astronomer said. Ta.

“Thousands of new stars will be born in the region over the millions of years to come.”

“When stars O and B end their supernovae life, they enrich the clusters with elements like carbon, oxygen and iron,” they said.

“Along with the rich hydrogen in the cluster, these elements provide the components necessary for the formation of new stars, planets, and perhaps life.”

“The bright stars seen in the image are widely separated, but their movements through space are similar, indicating that they have a common origin.”

“The layered ambiguous structure of LH 88 is the remains of an already dead star.”

“The delicate leaves of the rose were formed by both the shock waves of the supernova and the stellar winds of the stars of O and B.”