Sentences with phrase «massive star formation»

The Mystery of Massive Star Formation January 15, 2014 With the aid of enormous telescopes, scientists are beginning to unravel the nebulous births of stellar behemoths.
They combined observations in the visible and the near infrared from the Hubble Space Telescope with radio observations from the Very Large Array and the Submillimeter Array to explore the effect of the turbulence, stellar radiation, and magnetic field on massive star formation in the galaxy's nuclear ring.
The visit will also include lectures at both undergraduate level and for the public and is hosted by Dr Quang Nguyen Luong, an adjunct scientist working on massive stars formation at ICISE.
Because it is so close to Earth (just 1,500 light - years away), it's the best laboratory astrophysicists have for studying massive star formation.
The nearest massive star formation to Earth is happening 1500 light years away in the constellation of Orion, the Hunter.
30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula) is an area of massive star formation within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The Orion Nebula is the nearest region of massive star formation to Earth, and is therefore studied in great detail by astronomers seeking to better understand how stars form and evolve in their first few million years.
It has been difficult to study massive star formation, because massive stars are rarer than smaller ones, they tend to form in clusters, making observations more difficult, and there are few of them forming relatively nearby.
This series of images show three evolutionary phases of massive star formation, as pictured in infrared images from N...
Parents and children created a massive star formation in a field at Wheelbirks Farm on Sunday 25th March.
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