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Turbulence May Promote the Birth of Massive Stars

Within the Hunter’s sword, the Orion Nebula swaddles a cluster of newborn stars called the Trapezium. These stars are young but powerful, each one shining with the brilliance of 100,000 Suns. They are...

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Stars forming just beyond black hole's grasp at galactic center

The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational tides stirred by a 4 million solar-mass black hole. Those tides should rip apart molecular clouds that act as stellar nurseries, preventing s...

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Supersonic 'Rain' Falls on Newborn Star

Astronomers at the University of Rochester have discovered five Earth-oceans' worth of water that has recently fallen into the planet-forming region around an extremely young, developing star....

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A&A special feature: XMM-Newton deciphers the magnetic physics around forming stars

The large molecular gas cloud in the constellation of Taurus is the nearest star formation region and a star formation test environment for expert theorists and observers alike. The XMM-Newton project...

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Astrophysicists quash alternative

Through a series of theoretical calculations and supercomputer simulations, astrophysicists have determined that new stars form by gravitational collapse rather than the widely held bel...

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Astrophysicists put kibosh on alternative theory of star formation

Astrophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have exploded one of two competing theories about how stars form inside immens...

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How do massive stars form? A case of triggered high-mass stars formation

In an upcoming issue, the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics will publish the most complete picture of a “triggered” star-forming region. Induced (or “triggered”) star formation is one of the...

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Milky way churning out new stars at a furious pace

Some of the first data from a new orbiting infrared telescope are revealing that the Milky Way - and by analogy galaxies in general - is making new stars at a much more prolific pace than astro...

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Shadow of a Large Disc Casts New Light on the Formation of High Mass Stars

Massive Star Observed that Forms through a Rotating Accretion Disc Based on a large observational effort with different telescopes and instruments, mostly from the European Sout...

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Infrared Images of an Infant Solar System

ESO telescopes have detected a strange-looking object. Using the ESO 3.6-m New Technology Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of astronomers [1] have discovered a dusty and op...

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