The enigma of the missing stars in space may be solved
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
New stars are born in the Universe around the clock - on the Milky Way, currently about ten per year. From the birth rate in the past, we can generally calculate how populated space should actually be. But the problem is that the results of such calculations do not match our actual observations. 'There should actually be a lot more stars that we can see,' says Dr Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, astrophysicist at the Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie of the University of Bonn...