A new star is born

Brother Hamdi, may the stars shine brightly on you. 

Thank you brother Ökkeş, may the stars hit you too!

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You know that new stars are still being born in the universe, don't you?

No, I'm not talking about the new stars born in the art world, they are our dear ones, our lungs, we love them all very much, but I'm talking about the universe, I'm talking about the physical birth of a new star.

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Of course, if a star was born right now, it would take a long time for its light to reach us. In other words, we have no chance to see a star born at this moment in history. The light emanating from that star will reach us by winding its way through the vast universe, and we will witness the birth of a new star somewhere out there!

I have written about it before, haven't I? None of the stars we see in the sky are actually where we look at. The path of light in the universe is affected by the curvatures in spacetime, and if it passes by extremely massive structures such as black holes or massive stars, it bends and twists. 

The road at the exit of the same village curves until it reaches the next village, you ask where the next village is, they point in a completely different direction, but the road leading to that village from the exit of the village seems to be travelling in a completely different direction.

So is the appearance of the stars, you think they are there, but the real place is in a completely different position.

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Anyway, we were talking about new stars. 

I don't know exactly when they were born, I don't know how many light years away their first light must have come from, but astrophysicists have recently detected the birth of a brand new star. 

Can you imagine, there is a dust cloud somewhere out there and suddenly a beam of light emerges from the dust cloud!

There are still huge phase clouds of hydrogen and helium in space. When the dust clouds from supernova explosions are included among them, it creates the same rain effect. That gigantic hydrogen and helium mixed gas cloud (when I say gigantic, I mean thousands, hundreds of thousands of solar masses!) and the dust cloud left over from the supernova explosion, whatever element it is, start to condense around those particles and after a while they turn into a star.

When enough pressure and temperature builds up in the centre of the star, nuclear reactions begin. And yes, the glow of that first reaction spreads out into space. 

And then, after who knows how long, after who knows how long, it travels and reaches our world.

It must be interesting to be able to detect such a thing. Because the image of the star I'm talking about is quite faint as it has just formed, it is not visible to the naked eye. 

The James Webb telescope, one of the last telescopes sent to space, detected the birth of this new star. 

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Isn't it amazing what the world is doing? They have placed this telescope in such a place in space that it doesn't have to spend any energy to stay in that place. 

It continues to revolve around the sun with the Earth, because it needs to be in constant communication, but it doesn't need any extra fuel to keep it in that orbit. Maybe they've stored a little bit of fine-tuning fuel on the side.

There are a few points on the Earth's system of rotation around the sun that do not need this special energy.

They made all these calculations, produced that huge telescope, sent it into space, returned and put it into orbit in that special place, and then communicated and recorded the birth of a new star.

It's unimaginable. But they did it, they did it.

I think we were going to go to the moon with our own means. Or we were going to make a touristic trip or something, believe me, I don't follow it. 

Constantly making promises, then paying money and going on touristic trips to space.

Still, let's say maybe one day. 

Stay with science.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.