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ALMA Band 9 CO(6–5) Reveals a Warm Ring Structure Associated with the Embedded Protostar in the Cold Dense Core MC 27/L1521F: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae47ec -> Using ALMA, astronomers observe #protostars producing rings of gas and magnetic flux as they grow: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/385

ALMA Band 9 CO(6–5) Reveals a Warm Ring Structure Associated with the Embedded Protostar in the Cold Dense Core MC 27/L1521F

ALMA Band 9 CO(6–5) Reveals a Warm Ring Structure Associated with the Embedded Protostar in the Cold Dense Core MC 27/L1521F, Tokuda, Kazuki, Omura, Mitsuki, Harada, Naoto, Shoshi, Ayumu, Fukaya, Naofumi, Onishi, Toshikazu, Tachihara, Kengo, Saigo, Kazuya, Matsumoto, Tomoaki, Fukui, Yasuo, Kawamura, Akiko, Machida, Masahiro N.

NASA Jan 27

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-finds-crystal-spewing-protostar/

NASA Jan 27

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-finds-crystal-spewing-protostar/ #NASA #Protostars

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar - NASA

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula

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Scientific Frontline Jan 24

Researchers have definitively identified nitrous oxide (N₂O), commonly known as "laughing gas," within the solid ice mantles coating dust particles around young #protostars
#Astrophysics #Astrochemistry #Astronomy #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/asph01242601.html

UrFU Researchers Discovered “Laughing Gas” in Interstellar Ices around Protostars

More than 300 different molecules have been identified in the gas clouds that form stars and planets

NASA Jan 21

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-young-sun-like-star-forging-spewing-common-crystals/

NASA Jan 21

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-young-sun-like-star-forging-spewing-common-crystals/ #NASA #Astrophysics #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Protostars #ScienceResearch #Stars #TheUniverse

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require

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NASA Jan 17

Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-snaps-stellar-baby-pictures/