蜘蛛星云的绚丽拼图

来自美国国家航天局（NASA）的钱德拉X射线天文台（Chandra X-ray Observatory）、韦布空间望远镜（James Webb Space Telescope）以及哈勃空间望远镜（Hubble Space Telescope）的数据，共同呈现了2026年8月11日这张30 Doradus（即蜘蛛星云（Tarantula Nebula））的绚丽影像。蜘蛛星云位于大麦云（Large Magellanic Cloud）中，这是一个距离地球（Earth）约160,000光年（light year）、邻近银河（Milky Way）的小型星系。在蜘蛛星云（Tarantula）内部，数以千计的年轻星（young star）嵌入在蜂窝状的气体与尘埃结构中。

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this Aug. 11, 2026, image. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Tarantula has thousands of young stars embedded in a vibrant honeycomb-like structure of gas and dust.

通过研究来自钱德拉、哈勃和韦布的数据，并结合该机构已退役的斯皮策空间望远镜（Spitzer Space Telescope）的数据，天文学家（astronomer）确定蜘蛛星云可能正通过多种来源损失能量，其中包括从星云中逃逸出的高温气体。

By studying the data from Chandra, Hubble, and Webb, combined with data from the agency’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers determined that the Tarantula may be losing energy from several sources, including hot gas escaping from the nebula.

图注：X射线：NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./J. Rodriguez et al；红外：NASA/ESA/CSA/空间望远镜研究所（STScI）；光学：NASA/ESA/STScI；图像处理（image processing）：NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ./J. Rodriguez et al; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds