New view of stellar winds
EU–(ENEWSPF)–February 5, 2013.
ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory has completed the most detailed study ever of the fierce wind from a giant star, showing for the first time that it is not a uniform breeze but is fragmented into hundreds of thousands of pieces.
Massive stars are relatively rare, but play a very
important role in recycling materials in the Universe. They burn their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than stars…
