{"id":734592,"date":"2022-09-08T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734592"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T21:23:43","slug":"hubble-finds-spiraling-stars-providing-window-into-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734592","title":{"rendered":"Hubble finds spiraling stars, providing window into early universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don&#8217;t fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied &#8216;baby boom&#8217; of star birth that occurred early in the universe&#8217;s history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This nearby galaxy has a simpler chemical composition than the Milky Way, making it similar to the galaxies found in the younger universe, when heavier elements were more scarce. This allows it to serve as a proxy for the early universe. Two separate studies &#8212; the first with the Hubble Space Telescope, and the second with the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope &#8212; recently came to the same conclusion. Using different methods, the independent teams found young stars spiraling into the center of a massive star cluster called NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This river-like motion of gas and stars is an efficient way to fuel star birth, researchers say. The teams&#8217; results show that the process of star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud is similar to that in our own Milky Way.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/09\/220908172343.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hubble finds spiraling stars, providing window into early universe<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don&#8217;t fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied &#8216;baby boom&#8217; of star birth that occurred early in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734592","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=734592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}