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Astronomers Look to Neighboring Galaxy for Star Formation Insight
November 30, 2011
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An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail, the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creation. They found a large number of relatively low-mass clouds of molecular hydrogen--material for star forming--and found a correlation between young, massive stars and molecular clouds.Full StorySource
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