Tag: ALMA

Star clusters give birth like dogs, not humans, ALMA shows

Humanity once thought our Solar System was typical. Here in our own Solar System, a single star anchors the system, where inner, rocky planets, an intermediate-distance asteroid belt, and then more distant gas giant planets eventually give way to the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud. For a long tim...

Star clusters give birth like dogs, not humans, ALMA shows

We soon learned that stars and stellar systems varied tremendously. The (modern) Morgan–Keenan spectral classification system, with the temperature range of each star class shown above it, in kelvin. In terms of size, the smallest M-class stars are still about 12% the diameter of the Su...