Tuesday, June 17, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 06:57 AM PDT

The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. The observations have revealed numerous clumps of material, a baker's dozen of which may evolve into the most powerful kinds of stars in the universe. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions.

High-mass stars are rarely solitary: Binary stars are more common than thought

Posted: 16 Jun 2014 05:21 AM PDT

High-mass stars are rarely solitary, according to new research. For several years, astronomers observed 800 celestial objects that are up to one hundred times heavier than our sun. More than 90 per cent have turned out to be multiple systems. These data support the theory that heavy stars are already formed as twins.

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