Unravelling the mystery of massive star birth - all stars are born the same way

[tblaxland]

Unravelling the mystery of massive star birth -- all stars are born the same way

http://www.physorg.com/news198327946.html

The main finding:

"This is the first time we could image the inner regions of the disc around a massive young star", says Kraus. "Our observations show that formation works the same for all stars, regardless of mass."

And this gives interesting perspective:

By combining light from three of the VLTI's 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes with the AMBER instrument, this facility allows astronomers to see details equivalent to those a telescope with a mirror of 85 metres in diameter would see. The resulting resolution is about 2.4 milliarcseconds, which is equivalent to picking out the head of a screw on the International Space Station

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[hribek]

Interesting news. Though, I think you probably wanted to link something other than the forum's new topic function.

 

[RisingFury]

This is exciting news! Please fix the link!

 

[Loru]

With disc equal in mass to star (20 Sol masses) there are good chance of planet forming here.

Little off-topic:In my opinion that kind of webpage should have some form of control over comments under the article

 

[tblaxland]

:embarrassed: Thanks for fixing, garyw. That's two copy-paste fails in two days - I need more sleep (le Tour de France stages don't finish until about 1:30am local here, and the cricket 2:30am).

Anyway, the originally intended link was from the ESO press release but it contains the same stuff as the link garyw put in for me: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1029/

 

[bwog]

:embarrassed: Thanks for fixing, garyw. That's two copy-paste fails in two days - I need more sleep (le Tour de France stages don't finish until about 1:30am local here, and the cricket 2:30am).

Anyway, the originally intended link was from the ESO press release but it contains the same stuff as the link garyw put in for me: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1029/

Someone else who watches the Tour de France! But here it ends at about 11AM.