VIVAnews - A telescope spacecraft successfully photographed a group of stars in other galaxies. One is a young star which is believed to size 20 times larger than the sun.
Thus said the scientists who worked with researchers from the United States Space Agency (NASA). NASA researchers, Stefan Kraus and astronomers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, revealed that the discovery was in order to examine how the big stars were born in another universe.
As quoted in the official page of NASA, Wednesday, July 14, 2010, Kraus said that NASA's Space Telescope, Spitzer, managed to record images of a star called IRAS 13481-6124. Images from the Spitzer telescope was also supported by observations from the station telescope in Chile.
Star is located in the constellation Centaurus, which is 10,000 light-years. IRAS mass 20 times larger than the sun. "This is the first time such a thing could be monitored," said Kraus.
Through Spitzer imaging, the researchers also saw that the star is surrounded by a collection of gas and dust that resemble disks. This phenomenon also occurs in other stars. "Futsal is very similar to what we had seen in young stars, which form smaller, but still large," said Kraus.
According to him, images from the Spitzer time resulted in a clearer image of who had shown so help scientists better understand the birth of stars in the universe to another.
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