How the stars were born..

Comment naissent les étoiles ?                            How do stars begin?

France Info junior par Gilles Halais, Estelle Faure lundi 28 mars 2016

FIJ étoiles

Le centre de la nébuleuse de la Tarentule, où l’on trouve l’étoile la plus massive jamais détectée © Credit: NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield). At the centre of the Tarantula nebulous, one finds the biggest star ever detected.

De nouvelles images d’étoiles, prises par le télescope Hubble, viennent d’être dévoilées. On y voit neuf étoiles qui brillent comme 30 millions de soleils. L’occasion pour les petits journalistes de France Info junior de poser toutes leurs questions sur les étoiles. New images of the stars, taken by the Hubble telescope, are becoming unveiled. On view are nine stars that are as bright as 30 million suns. This is an opportunity for young apprentice France Info journalists to ask their questions about the stars.

Neuf étoiles “monstres” qui brillent comme 30 millions de soleils… Ce sont les images impressionnantes que viennent de dévoiler l’ESA et la NASA. Elles ont été prises par le télescope Hubble, qui chasse des images de l’espace depuis 25 ans. Elles nous propulsent dans la nébuleuse de la Tarentule, à 160.000 années-lumières de la Terre, au cœur du Grand Nuage de Magellan. On y trouve R136a1, l’étoile la plus massive jamais détectée à ce jour. À elle seule, sa luminosité équivaut à 8,7 millions de fois celle de notre soleil, explique le blog Passeur de Sciences.

Nine “monstrous” stars as bright as 30 million stars… These are the impressive images that are coming to be unveiled by ESA and NASA. They were taken by the Hubble telescope, which is hunting images in space for 25 years. It propels us into the Tarantula nebulous, 160,000 light-years from earth, into the heart of the Great Magellan Cloud. We find star R136a1, the biggest star ever detected. On it’s own, it has an equivalent brightness of 8.7 million times that of our sun, as explained in Science Smuggler.  

 

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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