{"id":241927,"date":"2026-01-16T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:25:07","slug":"hubble-spots-three-young-stars-going-through-growth-spurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/241927\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble spots three young stars going through growth spurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/james-webb-hubble-space-telescopes-170100872.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hubble Space Telescope;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the constellation Scorpius. Posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-observes-ghostly-cloud-alive-with-star-formation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:agency\u2019s site;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">agency\u2019s site<\/a> on January 16 as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/hubble-news\/hubble-social-media\/stellar-construction-zones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hubble Stellar Construction Zones;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hubble Stellar Construction Zones<\/a> series, the three T Tauri stars\u2014seen at the bottom right, upper center, and left along with many other stellar objects in the background\u2014are forming inside the hazy Lupus 3 cloud about 500 light-years from Earth. While the image appears somewhat serene, the interior forces at play are anything but tranquil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A T Tauri star is a young star, usually less than 10 million years old. During this phase, the still-growing stellar object sees the dust and gas surrounding it begin to disappear as stellar winds, radiation, and other ionized particles bombard it. This dynamic environment is reflected in the star\u2019s brightness, which randomly fluctuates depending on the material interactions underway in its accretion disk. More regular shifts in brightness can also occur as sunspots move in and out of view to astronomers here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The T Tauri examples seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/hubble-space-telescope-caught-second-165014196.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hubble;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble<\/a>\u2019s image have a long way to go before they resemble the stars most observers recognize. Gravity will continue to bear down on the object until it forces hydrogen and helium elements to fuse in the star\u2019s core, at which point it will finally become a main sequence stellar object.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The stars in Scorpius are further along in their growth than the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-observes-stars-flaring-to-life-in-orion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:protostars highlighted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">protostars highlighted<\/a> by NASA on January 14, however. About 1,300 light-years away, protostars in the \u201csword\u201d of Orion are getting their start inside the constellation\u2019s Orion Molecular Cloud complex. Astronomers aimed Hubble toward this area of the sky to better understand outflow cavities\u2014areas where a protostar\u2019s gas and dust is shaved away by nearby stellar winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130171,130175,12828,85,46,141,31664,130172,130173,130174],"class_list":{"0":"post-241927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-constellation-scorpius","9":"tag-gas-and-dust","10":"tag-hubble-space-telescope","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-star-formation","15":"tag-stellar-object","16":"tag-stellar-winds","17":"tag-t-tauri"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}