Baby stars don't always play nice with their siblings. New observations show an outflow of high-speed gas from one baby star colliding with a nearby dense cloud of gas where other stars are in the process of being born. These ...
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Feb 3, 2023
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Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star. They found that it shares many common features with lighter baby stars. This implies that the process of star ...
Astronomy
Jul 8, 2019
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New observations have revealed a spiral pattern in a disk of material around a still forming, but already high-mass, baby star. This indicates that there is gravitational instability in the disk, which has important implications ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2023
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A group of researchers has, for the first time, identified rare earth elements produced by neutron star mergers.
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2022
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Astronomers have played a game of guess-the-numbers with cosmological implications. Working from a mock catalog of galaxies prepared by a Japanese team, two American teams correctly guessed the cosmological parameters used ...
Astronomy
Mar 19, 2021
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Across many Asian cultures, there is a much-loved story of Tanabata: the Weaving Princess and the Cow Herder, a happy young couple in the heavens who are separated as punishment for neglecting their duties and only allowed ...
Astronomy
Jul 13, 2022
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Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This is the first confirmation ...
Astronomy
Dec 16, 2019
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Astronomers have mapped 39 interstellar clouds where high-mass stars are expected to form. This large data set shows that the accepted model of low-mass star formation needs to be expanded to explain the formation of high-mass ...
Astronomy
Jun 20, 2023
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A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known ...
Astronomy
Nov 28, 2016
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A joint team of University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators, using ALMA and other telescopes that utilize radio waves for space observation, revealed that dense molecular gas disks a few hundred light years in ...
Astronomy
Oct 13, 2016
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