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Spitzer Telescope Sheds Light On Colony of Baby Stars
astroengine writes "NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope had the unprecedented opportunity to observe the heart of the Orion Nebula for 40 days, returning 80 images of the star-forming region. In doing so, the observatory has been keeping track of 1,500 young stars as they undergo rapid variations in brightness, caused by large 'cool spots' on the surface of the stars and obscuring dust. However, the high resolution images Spitzer is returning take center-stage, showing a tight cluster of stellar birth amid the nebulous clouds of dust. This is an incredible achievement considering its primary mission is over (after using up all of its liquid helium coolant in May 2009) and only two instruments are still working."
first born star!
I find it amazing the equipment NASA deploys works so well after there primary mission. IE Mars rovers now the Spitzer
...isn't that kiddie porn? Those stars haven't even entered the main sequence yet! Even worse, they haven't had their first stellar wind yet! Somebody call the astrocops!
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It's all relative. Those baby stars are already older than the whole history of our world (starting with the first cellular organisms).
And if they're babies it implies there is one or more parent (let's drop the male+female requirement). So who's the parent, and will he need to pay for the baby star college course?
The United States used the rest of its technology as resourcefully as NASA. Perhaps a Beowulf cluster of 4004's, some IR arrays, and some old DVD-Burner lasers, and you might have a great mosquito defense array (MDA, tm).
I'll tell you what, the first company that pays you for your electronic junk, in a streamlined manner, say, flat checks or cash, and then turns those old products back into reusable things, for say, kids toys, education, impoverished folks, charity, simple embedded systems, science, and sells it cheap, well that may be a good venture indeed. Sure better than letting all our old hardware seep component chemicals into the environment.
The real question is, could this theoretical company do it cheaper than China?
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Perhaps they should rename the stars Dupré:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer#Scandal_and_resignation
<pedant mode on> Wouldn't the colony of baby stars be shedding light on the telescope? Otherwise they wouldn't be seen. <end pedant mode>
Wouldn't it be a little more accurate to say that a colony of baby stars shed light on the Spitzer Telescope?
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series of 3ebates
How is babby star formed?
How much does this telescope spend on prostitutes?
This is what you get for hiring space prostitutes without putting a condom on your telescope.
I guess this is to answer the question of how it is formed.
The Spitzer Telescope is name for American theoretical physicist and astronomer Lyman Spitzer, not the millionaire New York real estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer (estimated worth $500 million) or his son, the philandering former Democratic Attorney General and Governor of New York State, Elliot Spitzer.
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The new Hubble movie in IMAX 3D has two major flythrough visualizations using Hubble data. One of them is of the star nursey in the Orion Nebula.
Go see the movie. It actually wasn't playing in my (major!) city, and so last weekend I drove 4 hours roundtrip to go see it. I know, I know.
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I thought telescopes sucked in light..... If they 'shed' light, it would be the greatest revelation since relativity came to light. It would be as novel a find as the recent groundbreaking research in seismology! ....I slay me....