A MEGA STAR IS BORN

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The journal Nature reported on Wednesday that astronomers have confirmed a key theory about the formative of massive stars Using powerful telescopes peering into deep space.Images obtained by NASA’s orbital Spitzer Space Telescope and from a ground-based European telescope showed a dusty disc closely encircling a newly-born but huge star. It is the first direct evidence that very large stars — those with masses at least 10 times that of the Sun — are born in the same way as smaller brethren, from a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas.A […]