United States Space Agency (NASA) and a group of scientists have succeeded in photographing a group of stars, one of whom is believed to be a young star size 20 times larger than the Sun.
NASA researchers, Stefan Kraus and astronomers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, revealed 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.
According to him, images from the Spitzer time resulted in a clearer image than has ever shown so help scientists better understand the birth of stars in the universe to another.
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. (Vvn / Jos)
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