X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 04:00
in Astronomy & Space
The violent behaviour of a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma has been revealed thanks to the combined X-ray vision of three space telescopes, including ESA’s XMM-Newton.
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