Universe ID: 20217

Stellar Nursery

Animations by Walt Feimer Released on January 26, 2010

Stellar nurseries are dense clouds of gas in interstellar space. Protostars form as the gas begins to clump due to gravity. These protostars heat up due to the compression of material taking place in them and throw off material at high speeds, creating shockwaves. As the shockwaves propogate throughout the cloud of gas they can trigger additional protostar formation.

Animation Credits

Walt Feimer (HTSI): Lead Animator

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Astrophysics Animations

Keywords:
SVS >> Galaxy
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Astrophysics
SVS >> Universe
SVS >> Star
NASA Science >> Universe