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Salty Stars: Astronomers Discover Pair of Massive Stars Wrapped in Salt and Water Vapour Clouds – The Weather Channel
Could salt and water—the two essential ingredients of human food—be among the fundamental building blocks that cooked up the universe too?
Artists impression of the massive protobinary IRAS 16547-4247. Each protostar is surrounded by a small gas disk and they are embedded in the larger disk. Both protostars eject molecular gas outflows, while one emanates a collimated jet which collides with the surrounding gas and creates bright spots along the stream.
(ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))
A group of astronomers has, only for the second time ever, discovered a pair of massive baby stars that are growing in what appears to be salty cosmic soup….
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