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Article: New star forming from interstellar cloud. (B335)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
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In 1,000,000 years or so, a new star will over the Earth in the general direction of the constellation sagittarius, predicts an international team of astrophysicists. "We've believed for a long time that stars form clouds in interstellar space when gravity causes the clouds to collapse," explains Neal Evans of The University of Texas at Austin Astronomy Department. "However, we've had a hard time seeing the signature of a collapse."
Evans and his associates, Shudong Zhou of the University of Illinois and Carsten Kompe and C.M. Walmsley of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany, have found the signature of collapse by measuring the velocity of ...