Thursday, 11 July 2013
Astronomers spot monster star in stellar ''womb''
PARIS: Astronomers on Wednesday reported their best observation yet of a massive star embryo growing within a dark cloud -- the largest stellar "womb" ever spotted in our Milky Way galaxy.The star, which could grow to 100 times the mass of our Sun and up to a million times brighter, was spotted by the most powerful radio telescope on Earth -- the ALMA international astronomy facility located in Chile, according to a paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.Astronomers hope its
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