News tagged with protostars
Baby star blasts jets of water into space
Astronomers have found a nascent star 750 light years from earth that shoots colossal jets of water -- a cosmic fire hose -- out its poles in bullet-like pulses.
Jun 22, 2011 |
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The X-Ray Puzzle of Protostellar Jets
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new star develops by accreting material from a circumstellar disk; both in turn are embedded in a much larger, more nearly spherical envelope of in-falling dust and gas. The protostar is ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Stellar super soaker
Located in the constellation of Perseus and just a mere 750 light years from Earth, a young protostar is very busy spewing forth copious amounts of water. Embedded in a cloud of gas and dust, the hundred thousand ...
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Want to make planets? Better hurry
Currently, astronomers have two competing models for planetary formation. In one, the planets form in a single, monolithic collapse. In the second, the core forms first and then slowly accretes gas and dust. ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Baby stars in the Rosette cloud
Herschel's latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Making Massive Stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our understanding of star formation leans heavily on observations of stars like the sun, namely, those that are modest in mass and that are born and evolve at a relatively leisurely pace. ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole’s Grasp at Galactic Center
(PhysOrg.com) -- The center of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars got there. The galactic center is wracked with powerful gravitational ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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