Accretion process for high-mass stars

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by blobrana, Mar 7, 2007.

  1. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    A team of European astronomers offer new evidence that high-mass stars could form in a similar way to low-mass stars, that is, from accretion of gas and dust through a disk surrounding the forming star. Their article, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, reports the discovery of a jet of molecular hydrogen arising from a forming high-mass star located in the Omega nebula (M17). This detection confirms the hypothesis based on their earlier discovery that this forming high-mass star is surrounded by a large accretion disk.

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