Mythbusters Of Stellar Birth
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:57
in Astronomy & Space
A team of researchers say long held beliefs about how stars are formed have been just a myth, and they say this astronomy myth got busted using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope. When interstellar gas collapses to form stars, the stars range from massive to minute. Since the 1950s many astronomers have believed that in a family of new-born stars the ratio of massive stars to lighter ones was always about the same — for every star 20 times more massive than the Sun or larger, you'd get 500 stars the mass of the Sun or less. read more
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