Nov 2 1995
From The Space Library
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided pictures of a special type of newborn star emerging from dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs). Hubble found the EGGs, appropriately enough, in the Eagle nebula which is a star-forming region of the nearby constellation Serpens. Many EGGs are found at the tip of the two largest finger-like features protruding from the nebula's monstrous columns of cold gas, dubbed "elephant trunks." Photos of EGGs at different stages of being uncovered provide an unprecedented look at how stars and their surroundings appear before they are truly stars. This process of forming stars from high-speed columns of hydrogen is quite different from the process of stars forming in isolation. The EGGs appear unable to form the disks that go on to become solar systems. (NASA Release 95-190; NY Times, Nov 3/95; W Post, Nov 3/95; W Times, Nov 3/95; USA Today, Nov/95; Fla Today, Nov 3/95; AP, Nov 3/95; Newsweek, Nov 13/95)
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