A new paper digs into how and why the Tarantula Nebula is making new stars even though it shouldn't be able to.
, which shut down in October of 2022, scientists may have figured out the answer to one of the nebula’s biggest mysteries; how it continues to make new stars despite the fact it shouldn’t be able to., the Tarantula Nebula continues to birth new stars, spitting out enormous amounts of energy. However, that energy isn’t forming into massive pockets of gas in the center as you might expect. Instead, the center of this nebula is much lower in mass than astronomers believe it should be.
If this new research is to be believed, the culprit behind the weirdness found in the Tarantula Nebula could have something to do with the turbulent stellar winds created by stars in this area. The massive stars within the nebula create these winds, which should create chaos in the center of this region of space as they swirl around tons of gas. However, that isn’t the case.
NASA’s SOFIA telescope helped uncover more data about how the Tarantula Nebula’s iconic look formed. Image source: picture alliance / Getty Images-fields plays a critical role in holding up the integrity of the nebula’s cloud. “The-field morphology orients perpendicular to the radiation direction so that the magnetic pressure could resist pressure coming from this direction,” the researchers explain in their paper.
It’s an intriguing bit of research, and it helps showcase that no matter how much we think we may understand the fundamentals of our universe, there’s always something else we can discover.
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