It is located along the extension of a ~2,000 au streamer structure previously found in scattered light imaging, whose counterpart in dust and gas emission is also newly identified. Comparison with simulations shows signposts of a rare flyby event in action. Z CMa is a ‘double burster’,...
NASA’sJames Webb Space Telescopehas revealed new details surrounding the dark cloud L1527 and its protostar. The nebula’s vibrant colors, only visible in infrared light, show the protostar is in the midst of gathering material on its way to becoming a full-fledged star. A pr...
Close encounters between young stellar objects in star-forming clusters are expected to markedly perturb circumstellar disks. Such events are witnessed in numerical simulations of star formation1,2,3, but few direct observations of ongoing encounters have been made. Here we report sub-0.1″-resolutio...
More Is Not Always Better When determining how to use fans for your telescope, one goal is to use the least amount of air flow needed that will still achieve a high rate of heat transfer out of the glass. However, you quickly reach a point where more airflow is no longer beneficial, ...
The inferred mass of the central pair of protostellar objects is approximately one solar mass, while the disk surrounding the three protostars has a total mass of around 0.30 solar masses. The tertiary protostar itself has a minimum mass of about 0.085 solar masses. We demonstrate that the ...