Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars
Monday, April 13, 2020 - 16:40
in Astronomy & Space
High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die young. They often end their short lives in violent explosions called supernovas, but their births are much more of a mystery. They form in very dense, cold clouds of gas and dust, but little is known about these regions. In 2021, scientists plan to study three of these clouds to understand their structure.