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IRISH SCIENTISTS HAVE captured one of the most advanced images of a stellar birth ever taken using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The research observations, led by Professor Tom Ray at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, were published today in the Nature journal.
Using the JWST, the image captures one of the youngest stars known to scientists, the Herbig-Haro 211-mm, which is thought to be just a few thousand years old.
The image shows jets being emitted by the young star.
“Stars are not constant, they have a beginning and an end just like the rest of us. The process, however, takes thousands of millions of years,” Professor Tom Ray said.
“By developing our understanding about how they are born, through breakthroughs such as this, we are deepening our knowledge on how our sun and the solar system came into being,” Ray said.
Ray said that “one very exciting discovery from this new image is that when a star comes into being it emits highly supersonic beams of matter that can stretch for several light-years”.
“These beams resemble Star Wars light sabers and shine with light from many different atoms and molecules,” he said.
Ray explained that new stars are often enshrouded in gas and dust, making it difficult for them to be spotted from Earth.
The JWST uses infrared light to break through the gas and dust, revealing stellar births and stars such as the Herbig-Haro 211-mm.
“The research reveals that the very youngest stars appear to emit beams of almost pure molecules contrary to what astronomers thought before and move very slowly,” Ray said.
“How such beams are produced without the added ingredients of atoms and ions is currently a mystery.”
Launched in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest telescope. It is a collaborative mission between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
One of its main aims is to understand how stars and planets are formed.
Over the course of its 10-year mission, it is aimed that the JWST will collect more infrared light than any previous telescope, looking deeper into space to see the earliest stars, planets and galaxies in the universe, and study how they were formed.
As a result of their earlier involvement in the development of the telescope, astronomers at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies have guaranteed access to the Webb telescope to study star formation.
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Proper order too. Can we bring this rule in for all gigs? Strict enforcement too, of course.
If we can also add in people singing loudly during acoustic songs that would be great
Some one will miss the Tweets about the concert now.
Yes please.
Can’t see how it will work, but I get his point.
Kevin Hart comedy gig in the arena where actually ejecting people who took their phone out. No second chances just ejecting them . they warned for about the first hour that when show begins you will get thrown out and they did it
Yeah,was the same with Dynamo.
Same should apply in the cinema. People continually checking their phones. If you can’t go into a cinema for a couple of hours without constantly checking your phone you have no hope.
Sure what are people gonna look during the gig now?
…gonna look at…..
I can never understand why people go to gigs and spend it pointing their phone at the stage for the whole show
It’s the same at football matches these days too. I remember at one point during the Sweden versus Italy game, Sweden won a corner and all you could see was thousands of Swedes taking their phones out to film it. Ridiculous.
Still not as bad as Christy Moore asking people not to sing along during concerts.
There’s gonna be a heartache tonight
Hats off Don. Live and enjoy the moment instead of trying to record it for someone else to watch.
Never understood why people use their phones to record a song or sometimes the entire gig. What is the point. Just watch it online from the comfort of your couch. Live in it. Enjoy the atmosphere.
Not a bad thing imo, enjoy the concert when you’re there and it’ll be a great memory to have
Take it easy Don.
Etherman, Don’t think the redsers get it.
I try so hard Shawn.
I was at Vicker St last week and two @r$€h0les sitting in front of me had there big widescreen phones up from the moment the gig started. I didn’t pay €50 for some douche nozzle to ruin my much anticipated evening. They should be banned from all indoor gigs and phone blockers installed in venues.
Concerts ha ha. Seen people using their phones to take video of funerals. Some people can’t help themselves
If they are real fans they will adhere to this. Remember seeing Prince in London and anyone with a camera or phone got a light shone in their face by security and a telling off by real fans …Oh what about the needy types and zlisters who have to Facebook and Instagram every moment ?
I was at a King creosote gig in cork last year and not one phone was taken out for the performance. It was much nicer than sea of screens you normally have to look through. At the Pixies gig last year a woman in front of us was recording it with an IPAD!!! And she had the gall to give out to some girls in front of her for waving their arms and blocking her view.
I won’t be going to see this burn out.
Get you don’t cut yourself being edgy there Ronald
I doubt he’ll be too worried Ron, TBH.
Oh excuse me for having a personal preference in my choice of music. Where does it state that I have to like the Eagles or Don Henly? If Joe Walsh was playing I would definitely be there but Henly? No thank you.
You don’t have to like him Ron, but you don’t have to be an a$$hole about it either.
I’m betting he won’t be going to see you anytime soon either
The other half told me this happened at the Alanis Morissette gig in Dublin some 15 years ago, but it wasn’t phones then, it was cameras. Everyone had to leave their camera outside in a cloakroom set up.
Good on you Don. Like others have said I wish this was the case with all concerts
They should be kicked out in a New York minute ..
Was at the Muse gig earlier this year and it was the opposite. The band invited the crowd to photograph and video as much as they wanted just not to use the flash.
And it was savage!
Are Don Henley audiences glued to their phones?
Is this to protect phones from his music too?
Was at the eagles concert last year. Same thing. Heavily enforced. I agree with the motives behind it but you can take it too far….
My wife was texting home to see of the kids were ok, 45 minutes before they came on stage and she was asked to put it away.
Bryan Adams got everyone to take theor phones out during his concert. Looked cool.
Musak or Iphone, musak or iphone? Such a hard call.
Roll on Wednesday night
Well, if I’m paying you to perform, I’ll enjoy the concert any way I like.
And I paid to see a performance too, only I can’t see it properly cos some inconsiderate wank*r like you has his phone and arms blocking my view.
He won’t back down
Good luck with that…
Recording on your phone is bad enough, it’s the idiots with the ipads, recording, while the rest of the audience is bathed in the blue white glow…grrr.
Good organised fun there.Thats what you want at a gig…an excessive amount of rules..Rock and roooolllll!
All We Wanna Do is Dance
If ya had a few 100k followers on the Twitter machine Don,ya wouldn’t be saying that. How me gonna tell me mam you’re brilliant at the show. She be in the cradle apres gig,bro!
There must be a DVD coming
End of the I nonsense
The same team is going to happen at the marquee in Cork as well
Well that is the hope
No doubt there will be people who will try and define the Ben
In my opinion if I paid 50 or 60 euro to see anyone I’d like to be able to use my phone as I see fit! Within the law that is. No piracy of course.
Never heard of this guy but trying to teach kids manners is hard enough but to try and teach old age pensioners at his shows would be impossible.
Who the F… Does he think he is ? People are paying in ..
Where did he get the notion that he was that important
People not being allowed to enjoy Don Henley? Vincent Hanley would turn in his grave. #mtusa1984
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