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Panich52

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Fri Mar 27, 2015, 09:59 PM Mar 2015

NASA satellites catch 'growth spurt' from newborn protostar

NASA satellites catch 'growth spurt' from newborn protostar

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Using data from orbiting observatories and ground-based facilities, astronomers have discovered an outburst from a star thought to be in the earliest phase of its development. The eruption, scientists say, reveals a sudden accumulation of gas and dust by an exceptionally young protostar known as HOPS 383.

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