NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 3 January 2023: Kemble’s Cascade of Stars adorns the sky
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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a mesmerizing picture of an Asterism known as Kemble's Cascade of Stars.
Stars are celestial objects millions of years old floating in space. The older and bigger the star, the brighter it appears. Stars are the most widely recognized astronomical objects, and represent the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies. They are formed in star-forming regions called Nebulas. The makeup of a Nebula consists of gases, mainly hydrogen and helium. Although these gases are spread out, they can be pulled together by gravity. As they clump together, their gravity increases by such an amount that the gas cloud collapses, causing the material at the center of the core to heat up, and this is the birth of a star, according to NASA.Grouped stars somet...