The motions of interstellar gas (foreground) seen in contrast to the optical view of the Orion molecular cloud (background). Credit: Stephen Gwyn, Canadian Astronomy Data Centre/National Research Council of Canada (CNW Group/National Research Council Canada)
A new study led by Canadian astronomers provides unprecedented insights into the birth of stars. Using observations from the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in the United States, astronomers from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have discovered that star formation is more regulated by pressure from their surroundings than previously thought.
The birth of stars occurs deep within dense concentrations of interstellar gas and dust—known as cores— when their internal sup...
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