Newly Forming Stars Don’t Blast Away Material as Previously Believed. So Why Do They Stop Growing?
Updated: 2021-03-26 15:43:21
. Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Posted on March 26, 2021 March 26, 2021 by Scott Alan Johnston Newly Forming Stars Don’t Blast Away Material as Previously Believed . So Why Do They Stop Growing We thought we understood how stars are formed . It turns out , we don’t . Not completely , anyway . A new study recently conducted using data from the Hubble Space Telescope , is sending astronomers back to the drawing board to rewrite the accepted model of stellar . formation What we do know about star formation is that they are born from enormous clouds of hydrogen gas . The gas gets clumped together and compressed by gravity , increasing in pressure and temperature until the mass grows large enough to set off nuclear fusion . But stars don’t seem to absorb all of the gas