Nebula’s frozen clouds at heart of violent star formation
NOV 17, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025714
Wired : Using a sub millimeter wavelength camera on the Atacana Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope , a team led by Thomas Preisbisch, of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany, have captured images of star formation in the Carina Nebula . The nebula contains dense clouds of gas and dust that form very large, bright, short-lived stars that detonate as supernovas within a few million years. The gas near the blasts gets pushed into denser masses, which causes more stars to form.
© 2011 American Institute of Physics
