Researchers from the
Stratospheric Observatory Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
(SOFIA), made the incredibly detailed images of a massive star, immersed in a
dense cocoon of dust and gas.
This star is called
G35.20-0.74, or simply G35. It is one of the most massive protostar known to
scientists, and is located relatively close to Earth - at a space of 8,000
light years.
Until now, scientists
believed that the formation of massive stars has complicated turbulent, chaotic
conditions, the observed near the centers of star clusters, where young stars
are formed. But the observations of G35 demonstrated that this giant star whose
mass is more than 20 times the mass of our Sun, formed by the same mechanism as
the star the size of the sun.
Observations G35 made
with a special camera mounted on board the airborne observatory SOFIA, a modified
aircraft Boeing 747 SP, which is capable to rise up a telescope with an
effective diameter of 2.5 meters to a height of 13,700 feet, where the cosmic
infrared radiation is not blocked almost Earth's atmosphere.
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