Post by Udeze Nestor (@Nesmoore1)

#PPOD: Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation 👻

While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life! Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Bright T Tauri stars shine at the left, bottom right, and upper center, while other young stellar objects dot the image.

Protostars are considered T Tauri stars when their enveloping cloud of gas and dust dissipates from radiation and stellar winds; they’re usually less than 10 million years old and vary in brightness, both randomly and periodically, due to the environment and nature of a forming star.

Credit: @NASA, @ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (@NASAJPL), with image processing credited to Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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