Friday, 4 September 2015

Hubble survey unlocks clues to star birth in neighboring galaxy

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Hubble survey unlocks clues to star birth in neighboring galaxy
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2015 - In a survey of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images of 2,753 young, blue star clusters in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers have found that M31 and our own galaxy have a similar percentage of newborn stars based on mass. By nailing down what percentage of stars have a particular mass within a cluster, or the Initial Mass Function (IMF), scientists can better interpret the ... more


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