Stellar Birth A Hubble view of a sparkling jewel box full of stars captures the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
Therefore, Earth’s past and future fate is intimately tied to the behavior and evolution of our nearest star, the Sun. Once a star settles into a calm existence, with planets whirling about it, energy from the star can potentially nurture life if the planet is at a comfortable distance from the star. They are the coalesced debris left over from material that fell into a newly forming star. Potential habitats for life, planets, are a common byproduct of star birth. Stars are the nuclear fusion-driven furnaces for forging the heavier elements, which in turn become the building blocks for life as we know it. In turn, the towns and cities are assembled into continents – the galaxies. They are assembled into giant star clusters, like towns.
Stars are the building blocks of the universe. The fireworks that accompany star death, from exotic-looking planetary nebula to titanic stellar explosions, unveiled new mysteries to Hubble. The telescope surprisingly uncovered the first evidence that planet formation accompanies star birth. Hubble probed stellar incubators the vast molecular clouds. Hubble Space Telescope’s high resolution and wide-wavelength sensitivity gave astronomers key new insights into the lives of stars from birth to death.
