Newborn stars have disc

1994/11/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronomia

According to astronomer Robert O’Dell in the United States, half of the newborn stars have a gas disc around them. The Orio nebula is located 1,500 light-years from the Solar System and its nebula is full of born stars. Attending to these stars only a million years old, astrophysicists want to answer the following question: Are there other planets outside our galaxy in the universe?

The answer is important. And the more planets we have in the Universe, the greater the chances that in some case there is a life like ours. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent very agile images of these 110 newborn stars. 56 of them form a long luminous group, that is, in a large cloud of gas and dust. They therefore have no lack of raw materials to create planets.