ALMA captures explosive star birth
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images.
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Protostar growth spurts
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered an adolescent protostar that is undergoing a rapid-fire succession of growth spurts. Evidence for this fitful youth is seen in a pair ...
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Nov 4, 2015
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Spiral arms cradle baby terrestrial planets
New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss offers a potential solution to a longstanding problem in the prevailing theory of how rocky planets formed in our own Solar System, as well as in others. The snag he's untangling: how dust ...
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Jun 25, 2015
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Most stars are born in clusters, some leave 'home'
New modeling studies from Carnegie's Alan Boss demonstrate that most of the stars we see were formed when unstable clusters of newly formed protostars broke up. These protostars are born out of rotating clouds of dust and ...
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Sep 24, 2014
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Hubble sees a cosmic caterpillar
(Phys.org) —This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a feast. But the meat of the story is not only what this cosmic caterpillar eats for lunch, but also what's eating ...
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Aug 29, 2013
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Sofia observations reveal a surprise in massive star formation
(Phys.org) —Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of dust and ...
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Apr 17, 2013
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Astronomers observe 'hungry twin' stars gobbling their first meals
Just-forming stars, like growing babies, are always hungry and must "feed" on huge amounts of gas and dust from dense envelopes surrounding them at birth. Now a team of astronomers including Robert Gutermuth, a University ...
Astronomy
Jan 31, 2013
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Glycolaldehyde—the simplest sugar—discovered around newly developing star
(Phys.org)—Astronomers have detected about 180 molecules in interstellar space, from simple ones like carbon monoxide (one atom of carbon and one of oxygen) to complex species like buckminsterfullerene (sixty atoms of carbon) ...
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Sep 10, 2012
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A young star flaunts its X-ray spots in McNeil's Nebula
(Phys.org) -- X-ray observations have revealed something curious about the young star that illuminates McNeil's Nebula, a glowing jewel of cosmic dust in the Orion constellation: The object is a protostar rotating once a ...
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Jul 3, 2012
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Young stars flicker amidst clouds of gas and dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The colorful ...
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Feb 29, 2012
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