NEBULA PHYSICS2025
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Stellar Nursery Nebula
Radiative MHD · Photoionisation · Shock Physics
Interactive 3D stellar nursery simulating radiative MHD and photoionisation physics. Renders five distinct layers: H-α ionised hydrogen gas (Strömgren sphere), [OIII] doubly-ionised oxygen emission, curl-noise advected dust extinction lanes, protostellar cores with YSO bipolar jets, and Rayleigh-Taylor shock fronts. Uses FBM noise and curl-noise for realistic filamentary dust morphology.
Parameters
Distance~1.34 kpc
T_ion8,000 K (ionised zone)
n_e~100 cm⁻³ (electron density)
B_field~30 μG (magnetic field)
Turbulenceσ_v ≈ 4 km/s (Alfvén waves)
Age~3 Myr
Emission LinesH-α 656 nm, [OIII] 495/500 nm
Shock TypeRankine-Hugoniot, Mach 5–40
Stack
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