This artistic impression shows the universe around the star formation area with, as an overlay, the scientists’ observations.(c) Veronica Allen/Alexandra Elconin (http://alsewhere.weebly.com)
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west. The astronomers suspect that multiple stars-to-be share the same star formation disk, but the precise process is still a puzzle.
They studied the star forming region G35.20-0.74N, more than 7000 light years from Earth in the southern sky. The astronomers used the (sub)millimeter telescope ALMA which can map molecular gas clouds in which stars form...
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