Sentences with phrase «trigger bursts of star formation»
Others are violent and chaotic, switching on quasars, detonating supernovae, and triggering bursts of star formation.
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The violent activity triggers huge bursts of star formation that can churn out new stars 100 times faster than in an undisturbed galaxy like our own Milky Way.
These spiral arms are actually waves of piled up gas and stars sweeping through the galactic disc, triggering sparkling bursts of star formation and leaving clusters like NGC 3590 in their wake.
An earlier sideswiping encounter between the two helped to trigger their astounding bursts of star formation.