The Soul Nebula taken by Kurt Wallberg on Februrary 1 2024
This image depicts The Soul Nebula (IC 1848) on the left and Westhout 5 (IC 1848) on the right. Westhout 5 is part of the bigger Soul Nebula. It’s an emission nebula— consisting of the star forming regions with ionized hydrogen gas and dark nebula. Dark nebulas are when the stellar medium is so dense that the light from objects behind it cannot pass through.
As you can see in the image, there are cavities in the gas. These were carved out by stars due to radiation and stellar winds. There is a theory of triggered star formation, which describes that these cavities compress the gas around it to trigger star formation. Images such as these have been used to help prove this theory, showing that the closer the star is to the cavity, the younger it is.
28/jan/2025, tuesday
tiring day as usual but i pushed through!!
woke up at 6 (maybe i should try not falling asleep for hours after skl if that results with me waking up early without any alarm despite going to bed past 1 a.m.)
light stretching + exercise
did ok on the eng group presentation in school today but at least it's done
searched for poetry contest
physics lab record
duolingo lesson
practiced playing keyboard
SPRING IS HERE! 🌷💐🌸☀️
mental health, mood, weather, literally everything: 📈
my grades tho: 📉
dear me,
shine wherever you go and spread positivity with a smile <3
love, me.
Friday, 21st March 2025
Moving onto my stellar remnants module today, with an appropriate soundtrack :)
🎵The Sky Moves Sideways Album - Porcupine Tree
only 3K words????? for the amount of pain this paper has caused me???? im so glad im done with this.
there's nothing more satisfying than the program finally working!! i went through multiple breaks of despair only for the stupidest line in the code to be the issue
Ever wonder how stars and planets form? New clues have been found in the protoplanetary system Herbig-Haro 30 by the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble and the Earth-bound telescope ALMA. The observations show, that large dust grains are more concentrated into a central disk where they can form planets. The featured image from Webb shows many attributes of the HH-30 system. Jets of particles are being expelled vertically, shown in red, while a dark dust-rich disk is seen across the center, blocking the light from the star or stars still forming there. Blue-reflecting dust is seen in an arc above and below the central disk, although why a tail appears on the lower left is currently unknown. Studying how planets form in HH 30 can help astronomers better understand how planets in our own Solar System once formed, including the Earth.
Image Credit & Copyright: James Webb Space Telescope, ESA, NASA & CSA, R. Tazaki et al.
💕 28.01.2025 // I went to my english lecture then went home and tried to study a bit. My phone ran out of battery on my way home so I hadn't any podcast to listen to, didn't like it at all.
📖 Call me by your name - André Aciman (finished - my heart is fucking shattered, how will I ever recover from this istg)
🎧 TALLULAH - FAUVE
today is a study day (fortunately or regrettably depending on your perspective). this problem set is really cool and i actually like learning about circuits, which i didn’t expect.
- circuits problem set (88 mins)
- circuits quiz (39 mins)
- advanced circuits lecture
i’m REALLY behind in my course and i need to catch up by the time school starts again so i probably have another 4 hrs of work minimum. it’s finally feeling like crunch time lol