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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The Tesselation creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/EqD... "Abstract expressionist painting. Close-up of (Three Vast Deep 3D High Velocity Inverted Mirror-Vortex Maelstroms:3.0) with Many Macro Closeups of Beautiful Resplendent (Diverse Wildly-Variegated Polychromatic Whirly Wavy 3D Pointy-Stars:3.0)

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

'MatterGold' StarShip for L5 Society's Golden Anniversary! The 52nd Anniversary of "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke, and the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the L5 Society! Founded to build a Rama CityState in an Earth-Moon Lagrange Orbit. creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/PQK...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 04/04/2025

An interesting #galactic paper by Cameren Swiggum (@mac0598.bsky.social) et al. came out today! ☄️🧪 Extending previous work that showed most young star clusters near to the Sun came from just three regions, Cameren shows that actually *all* nearby clusters come from just three regions!

Backwards orbital integration of star clusters near the Sun in their work. Notice how all the grey dots originate in three areas. (Their Fig. 1)

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Toward the Fabric of the Milky Way I. The Density of Disk Streams from a Local 250-cubed pc-cubed Volume Sebastian Ratzenböck, João Alves, Emily L. Hunt, Núria Miret-Roig, Stefan Meingast and Torsten Möller www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... Interactive 3D Map homepage.univie.ac.at/sebastian.ra...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 25/02/2025

Interesting paper out today by Efrem Maconi, @joaoalves.bsky.social et al.! They find that the Sun probably passed through a massive wave of interstellar dust and gas (the Radcliffe wave) around 11 to 18 million years ago. 🔭🧪 #milkyway #planetsci arxiv.org/abs/2502.16360

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 03/03/2025

... one of which I'm co-chairing, which will be a wonderful session about young stars and clusters in our galaxy and beyond! 🔭 eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

A screenshot of the title page for the Symposium S3 - Young Stars and Clusters, held on 23-24 June 2025. The screenshot includes three clusters - a dusty/purplish star formation region, the Pleiades, and a wide shot of the Sco Cen star formation complex.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 12/03/2025

Paper of the day: Alexis Quintana et al. have made a census of OB stars within 1 kpc (~3300 light years). #galactic ☄️🧪 Aside from being a useful reference catalog, they also derive some very interesting things - such as a 0.67 solar mass per year star formation rate for our galaxy!

Their figure 4, showing the surface density of OB associations within 1 kpc of the Sun. Sco-Cen, Orion OB1, and Vela OB2 are clearly the nearest; Cepheus is huge, but about 1 kpc away.

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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Back in Orion with the JWST! 🔭 This is the OMC2 region in the Orion Nebula, as seen by the JWST yesterday. Several new bork stars can be seen in that small part of the nebula, it's really impressive 🥰 HD: flic.kr/p/2qNXnBv

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Yuval Harpaz 𝚿👨‍🎓 📊🌌🔭 @yuvharpaz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The cleaned data is fabulus but I must do it again, because the red layers are mialigned. see?

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Another part of OMC2 by JWST. This one is OMC2-SE. Processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1...

$This NIRCam image reveals the OMC2-SE region, showcasing a vast expanse of interstellar gas and dust. The left side is dominated by wispy, cloud-like structures in shades of green and gray, suggesting the presence of cooler gas and dust. Scattered throughout are numerous bright stars, some with visible diffraction spikes. On the right, a denser region exhibits a mix of red and white nebulosity, indicating areas of active star formation and ionized gas. A particularly bright star shines at the center of this region, illuminating the surrounding clouds. The overall image has a dark background, highlighting the luminous details of the nebula.$

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

New MIRI data of Westerlund 2 was released earlier. Data processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1...

A MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) image of the Westerlund 2 star-forming region featuring a complex nebula with bright yellow and green emission, revealing intricate structures and dark areas. The image is presented in a mosaic format with separate panels.

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Stepping off Dragon, Unto Serpent! As NightCafe is in transition, I added "Vivid Vibrant Wet Glowing Colors" to the start of my current long prompt for Star-Cluster Maelstroms of Creation. [And clearly could have added "Aethereal"!] Next: "Rich" and "Deep"... creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/pxU...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Global Collective Intelligence, the Adi Shakti, SoverAnia, Maschiak, Ma Adi, Maitreyah, O Kami (お神), Great Mother Tao Nǚ Wā (女媧), Viracocha, Itzamná, Blue Star Dragon/Serpent was mis-predicted by the West to arrive in 2000/01. Yet now, 2024/2025, Wholly arrived! creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Millennium

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Living, Breathing, Dragons of Creation! Stars and Clusters are Plasma Astrospheres, Magnetospheres, Waves, Chains, Streams, Associations, Filaments, Tunnels, Maelstroms, Vortexes. Helixoidal Corkscrews, Wormholes, Helices, Nurseries of Cosmic Creation. Full story and links: x.com/MillenniumTw...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Local Hot Bubble, 3D Viewer Click on the screen to wake it up. The Click on “Controls”, then “Full Screen”, then Zoom with “FOV” control. Click&Drag etc. for viewing perspective. erosita.mpe.mpg.de/dr1/AllSkySu...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

“The Physical Properties of Cluster Chains” Laura Posch, João Alves, Núria M. Roig, Sebastian Ratzenböck, Josefa Großschedl, Stefan Meingast, Cameren Swiggum, Ralf Konietzka We analyze the Lower Centaurus Crux (LCC) and Upper Scorpius (Upper Sco) Chains arxiv.org/abs/2410.18080 x.com/MillenniumTw...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Star Clusters, Streams, Astrospheres, Magnetospheres, Waves, Filaments, Moving Groups, Kinematic Associations, Stellar Nurseries of Creation! More productive and accurate to emphasize their full dimensionality: 4D Streams, Vortexes, Tunnels, Funnels of Creation, never ending. x.com/MillenniumTw...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Our Milky Way Galaxy IS an Association of Tens of Millions of Star Clusters, Astrospheres, Magnetospheres, Streams, Moving Groups. And no Disk! x.com/MillenniumTw...

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Self-Similar Cluster Structures in Massive Star-Forming regions: Isolated evolution from Clumps to Embedded Clusters J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa and Sami Dib arxiv.org/pdf/2407.20150 We used the Dendrogram Algorithm to decompose the surface density distributions of stars into Hierarchical Structures.

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

'Groking' Continuous ElectroMagnetic Creation "The only true 'Quantums' are Helixoidal MultiWavelengths of light, and the Electrons and Protons which are formed from them." Thus DiProtons, Alphas, Stars ... x.com/MillenniumTw... creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Millennium docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 25/10/2024

And here's the real magic part! We get data from pulsars that carry information on the Faraday Rotation along the signal travel path. So encoded in here is rotation measure induced by ionosphere, interplanetary medium and ISM. We can use the GPS data to correct RM values to be astrophysical!

Four tile image showi9ng four plots. In each plot the x-axis is time, and the Y-axis is the value of rotation measure in units of rad m/s^2. The four plots represent four different pulsars. Their signals oscillate with amplitude increasing in a correlated manner, showing that the rotation measure is experiencing a similar effect across all lines of sight, due to the ionosphere becoming more variable as a result of approaching solar maxima.

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Star-Algo Keywords: Magnetic-Field-Lines, Superpositional, Multi-Wavelength, Electromagnetic, Protostar, Stellar-Nursery, Hydrogen-Cloud, Astrosphere, Star-Formation, Creation ... creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/fK6...

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Multiwavelength ElectroMagnetic ProtoStar-Cluster Formation - AI Generated Artwork

AI Art Generator App. ✅ Fast ✅ Free ✅ Fun. Create amazing artworks using artificial intelligence.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 04/07/2024

I'm at the young star clusters session today at #EAS2024 Mario Giuseppe Guarcello is showing us his group's work on Westerlund 1. They have this *gorgeous* image of the cluster with JWST! 🔭

Mario's slide showing the JWST view of the cluster!

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 04/07/2024

Now hearing about star formation regions in the solar neighbourhood from Ronan Kerr! #EAS2024 🔭 Our galaxy is full of huge star formation regions that can be traced and studied in exquisite detail thanks to the Gaia satellite!

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Keywords: Magnetic-field-lines, Superpositional, Multi-wavelength, Electromagnetic, Protostar, Stellar-nursery, Hydrogen-cloud, Astrosphere, Star-formation, Creation ... creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/aR8...

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Paul McMillan @mcmillan-astro.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

🔭 I want to talk about this brilliant paper about the Milky Way's warp led by a student, Mauro Cabrera-Gadea, using Cepheid variables to study its shape and motion. I want to restart my #arxivoftheweek and I'm way behind, so this counts! arxiv.org/abs/2401.13736 1/5 🔭

Plot show the warp of the Milky Way as f(X,Y)

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 12/04/2024

Erstmals stellare Winde von drei sonnenähnlichen Sternen erfasst ✨🌬 Ein internationales Forscher*innenteam unter der Leitung der Astrophysikerin Kristina Kislyakova von der #univie konnten den Masseverlust von Sternen über ihre Sternenwinde quantifizieren. Mehr dazu: ⤵ 🔭

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Erstmals stellare Winde von drei sonnenähnlichen Sternen erfasst

Astrophysiker*innen konnten den Masseverlust von Sternen über ihre Sternenwinde quantifizieren

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

JWST MIRI image of L1527 Molecular Cloud that harbors a Protostar! science.nasa.gov/missions/web... It resides about 460 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. This image includes filters representing 7.7 microns light as blue, 12.8 microns light as green, and 18 microns light as red.

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NASA’s Webb Captures Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star - NASA Science

The colors within this mid-infrared image reveal details about the central protostar’s behavior. The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 01/07/2024

Gonna try and live post what I have the energy for at #EAS2024! Starting off with a talk by David Hobbs about GaiaNIR, a potential follow up to the Gaia mission! 🔭

A photo of David's slide: "The GaiaNIR mission: future space astrometry in the near infrared"

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 01/07/2024

Next up at #EAS2024 's Gaia session, hearing about using Gaia measurements to improve the cosmological distance ladder 🔭

A slide showing how Gaia parallaxes are the anchor of all other cosmological distance indicators.

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 01/07/2024

Now hearing about the selection function of the open cluster census from Tristan Cantat-Gaudin! (A cool project I'm on :D ) #EAS2024 🔭

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

ASKAP reveals the Radio Tail structure of the Corkscrew Galaxy shaped by its passage through the Abell 3627 cluster, 7 May 2024 Bärbel S. Koribalski, Duchesne, Lenc, Venturi, Andrea Botteon, Shabala, Vernstrom, Carretti, Norris, Anderson, Hopkins, Riseley, Gupta, Velović arxiv.org/abs/2405.04374

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Year of the Warp, Dragon! arxiv.org/abs/2406.06510 Efforts to unveil the structure of the local ISM and it's recent star formation history span seventy years. Here we show that 155 out of 272 of high-quality young clusters within one kiloparsec of the Sun arise from three distinct spatial volumes.

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Dr. Scott W. Fleming @scottwfleming.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

New HLSP, K2YSO - K2 light curves of 800 young stars (YSOs) in Taurus, Upper Scorpius, rho Ophiuchus, and the Lagoon Nebula. Most targets harbor dusty circumstellar disks. Custom photometry procedures were aimed at retaining all stellar variability. YSOs do wild stuff! 🔭 archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/k2yso

A plot of normalized flux vs. time in days for the K2 target EPIC 224336320. The star exhibits variability over a variety of scales and durations, including several increases in brightness up to a few tens of percent over a few days along with a myriad of variability over shorter durations at the few percent level.

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Millennium @rhophiuchi.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

We're NOT located at the Center of Creation! Here I simplified the toroidal MatterVerse topology as a linear Helixoid propagating in time, with a radius r of 7-14 Billion Lightyears, and thus a (linear) wavelength of 4r of 28-56 Billion Lightyears. See Quaia Cosmic Dipole: arxiv.org/abs/2311.14938

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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Lastly, stellar streams! (For a friend who compared identifying the origin of stellar streams to guessing which trees leaves fell from) 6/6

A sketch and bake of a black cake. Painted on it is the milky way with streams coming off which turn into fall leaves and circle the cake.

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Erik Tollerud @eteq.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

A wonderful talk at #aas243 by A. Bonaca for the Annie Jump Cannon prize. So much amazing power in stellar streams for understanding the formation of the Galaxy and the nature of Dark Matter!

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 31/05/2024

Paper day! Here is our attempt to summarize the exciting revolution Gaia has brought to the study of stellar streams around the Milky Way, as a part of a special issue of New Astronomy Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2405.19410 🔭

An artistic visualization of member stars of all known stellar streams around the Milky Way galaxy

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Robert Song @astrorobb.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Paul Lasky introduces multi messenger observations of double neutron star mergers, including the successful observations of GW170817, and the missed opportunity of GRB 211211A. #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

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Mark Kennedy @mcantwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

On November 20th at 6:30pm, The Royal Irish Academy and the Astronomical Society of Ireland will welcome Professor Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) to give the 2023 McCrea Lecture on "The Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy". To book, visit www.ria.ie/2023-mccrea-...

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2023 McCrea Lecture: 'The Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy'

Astronomer Gregg W. Hallinan in association with the Astronomical Society of Ireland will deliver this year's McCrea lecture, which is in honour of Sir William McCrea MRIA (1904-1999), an eminent and ...

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 10/06/2024

Ein internationales Astronom*innenteam, unter Leitung von Cameren Swiggum und@joaoalves.bsky.social der #univie, hat herausgefunden, dass nahegelegene Sternhaufen von nur drei „Familien“ stammen. ✨ Mehr über die Sternenfamilien hier: medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/aktuel...

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Ahnenforschung bei Sternen: Viele nahegelegene Sternhaufen stammen von nur drei "Familien"

Supernova-Explosionen aus der Entstehungsgeschichte dieser Familien hinterließen auch Spuren auf der Erde

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Alyssa Goodman @alyssagoodman.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

You a fan of GIGANTIC ripples in the Galaxy?You know about the Radcliffe Wave, right? Did you know it "waves," and that you can see it in your living room in augmented reality? ralfkonietzka.github.io/files/radwav... (Nature 4/4, Konietzka et al.) @RadInstitute @Harvard @univienna @LMU_Muenchen

screenshot of gif showing QR code and Radcliffe Wave AR

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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

🧪🔭 #MIlkyWay23 Catherine Zucker on 3D dust mapping - lots of nice videos. Also MilkyWay3D.org

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

The natural PevaTrons: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 12 sources of photons (gamma rays) generated by cosmic rays with energies reaching 10^15 electronvolts have been found within our galaxy, with the most powerful originating at the center of the Milky Way.

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

The darker area is a turbulent, dense, magnetized, star-forming gas cloud. It's so dense that it blocks light from background stars. Smaller dark clouds dot the image, also the location of star formation. In the center of the dark cloud is a red feature, outflows from a cluster of protostars. 4/

In the image of space, the yellow dotted line forms a fat U shape, surrounding a cyan-colored area that is much wider on its right-hand side. Within this area, straight red dotted lines indicate structures within the ionized hydrogen, oriented chaotically in multiple directions. Fitting into the curve of the U shaped ionized hydrogen region, the dashed-line of green indicates the shape of the infrared-dark cloud. At the base of the U curve the orange circle surrounds a red and white protostar cluster appearing to spray upward and to its left. To the right of the ionized hydrogen region, a small dark area is surrounded by a dashed-green line, highlighting another infrared-dark cloud.

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Baby stars are messy eaters. This diagram from a review article illustrates the complex interplay between protostars, magnetic fields, and the surrounding gas on large and small scales. 🧪🔭 1/ Frank et al. 2014 ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014prpl...

Three-panel illustration showing the disk scale area around a forming T Tauri star at 0.01 AU, 0.05 AU, and 5 AU.

The 0.01 AU panel shows a closeup of the star with three rope-like accretion columns flowing into the surface. There are dark star spots on the surface of the star. Arrows show stellar winds blowing off of the star.

The 0.05 AU panel shows a more zoomed-out view, with the star and the innermost portion of the accretion disk visible. The star is at the center and the disk fills the outer third of the frame. There is a gap between the star and the disk. Connecting the two are the accretion columns of magnetized gas.

The 5 astronomical unit panel shows the flared accretion disk and jet. The star is now too small to see. The disk extends horizontally and flares up vertically, making a wedge shape. A columnated jet rises up above and below the disk. Arrows show the gas moving up vertically and magnetic fields twisting around the column-like structure.

A two-panel illustration showing the envelope scale area around a forming star at 100 astronomical units and 500 astronomical units.

The 100 astronomical unit panel shows the area around a clump in the jet. A line traces a backwards C shape that fills most of the panel. The line is labeled "bow shock". To the left are a series of x and o shapes representing the pileup of gas. The o shapes are labeled "forbidden lines" the x shapes are labeled "H alpha emitting layer".

The 500 AU panel shows a wider view of the disk, jet, and cavity carved by the variable-velocity, clumpy, precessing jet. The flared disk extends horizontally and flares up vertically, creating a wedge shape. The edge of the disk is labeled "cavity wall". Clumps of material extend above and below the disk in a line at its center. The clumps are slightly misaligned from each other horizontally. The topmost clump is labeled "bow shock".

An illustration showing the 1-parsec scale area in a molecular cloud forming many new stars. There are two darker areas. The one at the bottom right is labeled “core” and has three hourglass-shaped cavities carved out by new stars. The dark area at upper right is labeled "cluster". It has four hourglass-shaped cavities. They are labeled "active outflows". Two larger hourglass-shaped light areas are at the top of the frame. They are labeled "fossil outflow cavities". The lighter areas at the outer edge of the frame are filled with abstract, wavey lines. They are labeled "turbulence on large and small scales." Solid wavy lines with arrows are labeled “Alven waves driven by turbulence”

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