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Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation – ROOM Space Journal
A pair of massive baby stars swaddled in salty water vapour is only the second such detection and could be a huge clue as to how giant stars are formed
Many recipes call for a pinch of salt to be added to a meal to give it that extra flavour, but for astronomers, sodium chloride, is turning out to have another more important use – a marker pointing the way to massive star formation.
9500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a pair of massive stars growing in a swirling cloud of heated water vapour and sodium chloride molecules a compound more comm…
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