Hottest Stars in Delicate Embrace by Spiral Arms
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 13:56
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) announced today that the hottest and most massive stars are wrapped in spiraling waves of hot gas. These winding waves, which have sizes as large as our Solar System, have long been expected since the mid 1980ies, but the team could - for the first time - study the intricate wave properties using new supercomputer simulations.
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