Using a telescope that can see cold grains of cosmic dust, astronomers have photographed the freezing factories of the Milky Way galaxy’s biggest stars.
Nebula’s Frozen Clouds at Heart of Violent Star Formation
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Giant Radio Telescope Sees Inside Galactic Smash-Up
A radio telescope array being built in the highest, driest desert in the world has photographed two colliding galaxies for its first public-test shots. The new images reveal a flurry of star formation within thick clouds of gas and dust at the Antennae Galaxies’ impact zone, 45 million light-years away.