PREVIEW: COSMOS: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on the Webb image of the birth of a star system. More.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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| 0:22.1 | Colle. Bob Zimmerman takes us to a photograph taken by the web telescope of the birth of a star |
| 0:29.8 | system, including the formation of planets, out of a sphere around the star, turning into a disc around the star, and what it looks like, the birth of a sphere around the star turning into a disc around the star and what it looks like |
| 0:40.2 | the birth of a future star system people unknown long time from now more of this tonight |
| 0:49.2 | yeah no we'll look like the previous picture which looked kind of down the face of the star. |
| 0:56.0 | It was a little oblique, but it was looking down the face, so we saw the disc. |
| 0:59.0 | This is looking along the elliptica, so you see the disc as a line across the star of dust. |
| 1:06.0 | But above and below it is this beautiful cone of glowing nebula material. |
| 1:11.6 | And what's happening with this baby star is that the disc was originally a sphere. |
| 1:16.6 | That's what it always starts out as a sphere. The star forms. |
| 1:19.6 | And what happens is the thing spins. The material above and below the disc gets sucked down into the disc. |
| 1:26.6 | And so that's what these cones are. The material is slowly being gets sucked down into the disk and so that's what these |
| 1:28.1 | cones are that the material is slowly being spiraled down into the disk to form |
| 1:32.6 | the creation disk that will eventually potentially form planets and it's a |
| 1:36.5 | great web into it what do you call it infrared image that I posted because of the |
| 1:42.2 | beauty of it |
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