Hot Stars in the Rosette Nebula


	Hot Stars in the Rosette Nebula

dorine

7-26-2007 11:56 AM

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astronomy, space, rosette nebula, science

dorine says:

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7-26-2007 5:41 PM

Newfman

Cool...I love this site...thanks!

7-26-2007 8:21 PM

kkcapricorn

Amazingly awesome.

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<B> Explanation: </B>
Winds and radiation from massive hot stars in
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070214.html" linkindex="7" set="yes">the Rosette Nebula</A>
have cleared the natal
<A href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/
cosmic_reference/dust.html" linkindex="8" set="yes">gas and dust</A> from the center of the
nearby star-forming region.
They also pose a danger to
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041210.html" linkindex="9" set="yes">planet forming disks</A> around
young, cooler stars in the neighborhood.
This <A href="http://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-08b" linkindex="10" set="yes">Spitzer Space Telescope
infrared image</A> of dust clouds
near the Rosette's central region,
shows the cleared-out cavity.
The view spans about 45 light-years at the
the nebula's estimated distance of 5,200 light-years.
Putting your cursor over the false color picture will highlight the
dangerous hot stars,
<A href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/
spectra.html#classes" linkindex="11">classified as O stars</A>
with surface temperatures of 25,000
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin" linkindex="12" set="yes">kelvins</A> or higher.
<A href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701741" linkindex="13" set="yes">Astronomers calculate</A>
that cool stars wandering
within about 1.6 light-years of the Rosette's O stars are in danger
of having their planet forming
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010504.html" linkindex="14" set="yes">disks destroyed</A>.
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