{"id":670172,"date":"2020-10-16T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670172"},"modified":"2020-10-16T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:59:00","slug":"a-freggs-plosion-of-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670172","title":{"rendered":"A frEGGS-plosion of star formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/A_frEGGS-plosion_of_star_formation_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image, taken with\u00a0the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or\u00a0frEGGs\u00a0for short. This object is formally known as J025157.5+600606.<\/p>\n<p>When a massive new star starts to shine while still within the cool molecular cloud from which it formed, its energetic radiation can ionise the cloud\u2019s hydrogen and create a large, hot\u00a0bubble of ionised gas. Amazingly, located within this bubble of hot gas around a nearby massive star are the frEGGs: dark compact globules of dust and gas, some of which are giving birth to low-mass stars. The boundary between the cool, dusty frEGG and the hot gas bubble is seen as the glowing purple\/blue edges in this fascinating image.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020 a previous ESA\/Hubble Picture of the Week, of\u00a0J025027.7+600849, featured another frEEG.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/10\/A_frEGGS-plosion_of_star_formation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A frEGGS-plosion of star formation<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image, taken with\u00a0the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or\u00a0frEGGs\u00a0for short. This object is formally known as J025157.5+600606.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670173,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}