In the dragonfish's mouth: The next generation of superstars to stir up our galaxy
Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 11:31
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have found the most numerous batch of young, supermassive stars yet observed in our galaxy: hundreds of thousands of stars, including several hundreds of the most massive kind -blue stars dozens of times heavier than our Sun. The light these newborn stars emit is so intense it has pushed out and heated the gas that gave them birth, carving out a glowing hollow shell about a hundred light-years across.