www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0301/15cocoon/[!--EZCODE CENTER START[div style="text-align:center]Stellar cocoons found in harsh environment[/div][!--EZCODE CENTER ENDSnippts:
//Astronomers have discovered dozens of potential stellar cocoons within the hostile environment of the Carina Nebula, including some oddballs with bulbous heads, irregular shapes and long, thin tails. Each of these objects may harbor disks of gas and dust that could one day form planetary systems.
This is the first large population of these so-called "proplyd" objects to be found outside of the Orion Nebula, the closest region to Earth known to be forming massive stars. The newly discovered proplyds located within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are five times farther from Earth than Orion, in a separate spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.//...
...//Located in the Southern Hemisphere sky at a distance of 7,300 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula is home to the famous massive star Eta Carinae, as well as about 60 other very hot, massive stars. The discovery of so many proplyds in the Carina Nebula was unexpected because the conditions are much more extreme there than in Orion, meaning proplyds should evaporate faster as they are baked in the ultraviolet radiation from such hot, massive stars.//...
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