Sentences with phrase «for early star formation»

I think the surprise that is definitely there is the evidence for early star formation, just 100 million years after the Big Bang.

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Astrophysicist Edwin Turner of Princeton University thinks the implications are «potentially quite important» for understanding how dust clouds can mask the true star - formation rate of the early universe.

For many years, astronomers have been searching for accretion disks in the earliest phase of star formation, in order to determine their structure, how they are formed, and how the accretion process takes plaFor many years, astronomers have been searching for accretion disks in the earliest phase of star formation, in order to determine their structure, how they are formed, and how the accretion process takes plafor accretion disks in the earliest phase of star formation, in order to determine their structure, how they are formed, and how the accretion process takes place.

This new image not only confirms the formation of an accretion disk around a very young protostar, but also reveals the vertical structure of the disk for the first time in the earliest phase of star formation.

Arthur M. Wolfe, an American astrophysicist who for a decade directed the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego and achieved widespread recognition for his discoveries about star formation and the early universe, died on February 17 following a battle with cancer in La Jolla, Calif..

Scientists say supernovas like this one may have been responsible for spewing dust in the universe and boosting the formation of early stars.

It will be used for many different types of astronomical studies ranging from detailed imaging of galaxy clusters in the early universe to mapping areas of star formation in our own Galaxy.