A Master Blueprint for Making Stars
Science • January 2010 • Views: 363
It’s a puzzle that has bedeviled astronomers and theorists for years: Do massive stars form in the same way as our sun or by some other process?
Now a team of astronomers has gone a long way toward providing the answer by catching a massive star in the act of condensing.
Their verdict is that this massive star, at least, seems to follow the same mechanism as smaller stars
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