02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
... formed much like a star, by condensing from its own swirling cloud of gas and dust. However, after a re-analysis of the exiled...“We conducted three tests and found tentative evidence for a dust cloud, but the jury is still out.” If this is indeed ...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... Making stars is a tricky business as a collapsing gas cloud has to compete with many different energetic phenomena whose very nature... gravitational energy released as a giant molecular cloud collapses heats up the material surrounding the developing...
08 June 2016
Long standing initial mass function problem solved
...by the Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. We encounter fractal, or self-similar objects on a daily basis. Among others, clouds in Earth's atmosphere, snowflakes and even some fruits and vegetables such as cauliflower or broccoli all have fractal...
22 August 2016
Massive Young Star Discovered
...a young star is that they are typically surrounded by a thick cloud of gas and dust. In this study, researchers used both the...by these arrays allowed astronomers to peek into the opaque cloud surrounded the young star. Astronomers where also able to ...
