Colossal Dark Cloud in Milky Way Found Forming a Monster Star

Nov. 20 2013 “The remarkable observations from ALMA allowed us to get the first really in-depth look at what was going on within this cloud...


































Nov. 20 2013

“The remarkable observations from ALMA allowed us to get the first really in-depth look at what was going on within this cloud,” says Nicolas Peretto, of Cardiff University and CEA/AIM Parsis-Saclay. “We wanted to see how monster stars form and grow, and we certainly achieved our aim! One of the sources we have found is an absolute giant — the largest protostellar core ever spotted in the Milky Way."

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