Hot Young Star FU Orionis

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·       Zoom to constellation Orion: STScI

·       Artist’s concept, FU Orionis: NASA-JPL, Caltech

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A montage of stellar photography, featuring galaxies, star fields, colorful nebulae, gaseous planets, light traveling into a black hole, ringed planets, and the surface of Jupiter. Text, News From the Universe. December 6, 2024. Hot Young Star FU Orionis. The constellation of Orion, in the shape of a hunter wielding a bow, with its major stars labeled. Zooming into FU Orionis near the hunter’s neck. In 1937, the still-forming star FU Orionis became more than 200 times brighter, and astronomers continue to gather surprising data about it today. Glowing clouds of gas orbit a bright yellow star in a flat disc. Artist’s Concept, Star FU Orionis. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured ultraviolet light from the inner edge of the star’s dusty disk and found it much brighter than expected. Astronomers are now rethinking how disks like this work, and also how planets forming in them survive (or not). This news was brought to you in part by Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

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