Globular cluster M4. Credit: NOAO/AURA/NSF
Using recent advancements in Australian telescope tech, a Monash Uni team has made an unexpected discovery that a large group of stars are dying prematurely, challenging our accepted view of stellar evolution revealing that large numbers of helium burning stars are dying prematurely in the M4 globular cluster. M4 is one of the closest and brightest globular clusters, and has already been very well studied. “Globular clusters are some of the oldest objects in the Universe. Although we have some ideas for what is going on in them, every time we look carefully we find something unexpected” said Professor Lattanzio.
Researchers used a new instrument called a high efficiency and resolution multi-element spectrograph (HERMES)...
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