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New Research Casts Doubt on Current Theories of Star Formation

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The birth of stars from dense clouds of gas and dust may be happening in a completely unexpected way in our own galaxy and elsewhere.

This is according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Cardiff University, who have found that long-held assumptions about the relationship between the mass of star-forming clouds of dust and gas and the eventual mass of the star itself may not be as straightforward as we think.

The underlying reasons as to why a star eventually grows to a specific mass has puzzled scientists for some time.

It has been assumed that a star’s mass mostly depends on the original structure – known as a star-forming core – from which stars are born.

Credit:  Cardiff University

Within stellar nurseries all across the Universe giant molecular clouds, made up from dense dust and gas, begin to collapse and clump together under the influence of gravity to create star-forming cores.

It is within these extremely dense cores that material begins to collapse and heat up to a temperature hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion, from which the star begins to grow.

Observations from within our galaxy, the Milky Way, have shown that there is a link between the mass of the star-forming cores and the mass of the stars that they eventually spawn, and that there is a distribution pattern that is common throughout.

For instance, observations show relatively few stars that are more massive than the Sun, and that solar-mass stars are comparatively abundant. This distribution also shows that stars somewhat smaller than the Sun are even more common, but stars with a much smaller mass are less common.

A lingering question among scientists has been whether or not we would see exactly the same distribution of star masses in other stellar clusters across the Universe, and whether this relationship between star-forming cores and stars themselves is similarly common.

In their study, which has been published today in Nature Astronomy, the team used the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile to gain an unprecedented insight into a distant star-forming region, named W43-MM1, that lies 18,000 light years away.

By using this extremely sensitive array of telescopes, the team were able to observe star-forming cores with an extraordinary range, from those similar to the mass of our Sun to ones that were 100 times more massive.

To their surprise, the distribution of star-forming cores was completely different to what had previously been observed in nearby regions of the Milky Way.

In particular they observed an abundance of extremely big stars with huge masses, but less smaller stars that are more common within our galaxy.

Co-author of the study Dr Kenneth Marsh, from Cardiff University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, said: “These findings were a complete surprise and call into question the intricate relationship between the masses of star-forming cores and the masses of the stars themselves, which has long been assumed.

“As a consequence, the community may need to revisit its calculations regarding the complex processes that dictate how stars are born. The evolution of a core into a star involves many different physical interactions, and the results of studies such as this should help us better understand how it all happens.”

The study was led by researchers at the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes) and the Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Modelling Laboratory, (CNRS/CEA/Université Paris Diderot).

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Cardiff University,


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    • Godspell

      You mean they were wrong? Maybe because they are making it up . There are no other planets there is no space .

      • Sean

        Everything Is Spiritual or of The Supernatural.

        Enormous sinkhole on a farm in New Zealand is set to keep getting bigger. :eek:

        Stunning new drone footage shows the massive scale of a sinkhole that opened up on a Rotorua farm after a deluge of rain on Sunday.

        The drone was also able to enter into the sinkhole for a closer inspection of the volcanic deposits which were exposed when the fissure opened up.

        Volcano Information Specialist Bradley Scott told 1 NEWS the deposits are extremely old.

        “What I see in the bottom of this hole is the original 60,000-year-old volcanic deposit that came out of this crater,” Mr Scott said.

        “Then there’s a stack of about 10 to 12 meters of sediment sitting on top of it from lakes that have formed in this crater the top three meters is volcanic ash.”

        Although sinkholes are common in the Rotorua region due to its volcanic history, the experienced geologist says this one is a bit different.

        “This is pretty spectacular and it’s a lot bigger than the ones I normally see.” :eek:

        https://youtu.be/KueG6a3OVs0

        The Seventh Bowl of Wrath

        :idea: And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. :idea:

    • The Ferrett

      Short extracts from: MAJESTYTWELVE by Bill Cooper: http://www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htm

      The plan for the destruction of the world, beginning with The United States of America and the formation of the socialist totalitarian one world government under the United Nations is contained within a Top Secret set of documents under the title of “MAJESTYTWELVE”. the planned placement of ultimate power in a body of 12 “wise men” who are destined to rule the world as the “disciples” of a “Messiah” front man (MABUS) who will serve as a buffer between them and the sheeple of the world.

      This plan outlines the formation of a one world socialist totalitarian government ruled by a behind-the-scenes “council of wise men”(Jewish Kehillah) with a “benevolent dictator” who is perceived by the public as a “Messiah” head of government. The Constitution of the United States of America and its Bill of Rights will be scrapped. A parliamentary form of government will take its place. All military forces and individuals are to be disarmed except for an internal police force which will be armed only with the minimum weapons needed to maintain internal order.

      The plan for the creation of a socialist world government is protected by an invented extraterrestrial threat from space. The entire UFO phenomenon and the UFOLogy movement has been created to further the protection and activation of this plan.

      The plan is real… the alien threat is imaginary. The alien threat is presented as real through the use of secret technology originally developed by the Germans in their secret weapon programs during WW-II, by geniuses like Nikola Tesla, and of course many others. Most military and government personnel who have access to this material believe the extraterrestrial threat is real, although none of them has ever seen any real evidence of the existence of any extraterrestrial creature or any sufficiently advanced technology other than that of human origin.

      All so-called “leaks” are intentional disinformation projects which are designed to promote the alien threat scenario while allowing for complete deniability on the part of government. The antics of Vicki (Cooper) Ecker, Donald Francis Ecker III, William Moore, Jaime Shandera, Stanton T. Friedman, Bud Hopkins, John Lear, Linda Moulton Howe, Art Bell, George Knapp, Colonel Philip Corso, the so-called alien autopsy film, and many others appear to be projects of this type.

      To make interstellar travel believable and promote a globe earth, NASA was created and the Apollo Space Program foisted the idea that man could travel to, and walk upon, the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commissions Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and at a secured and guarded sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon.

      All names, missions, landing sites, and events in the Apollo Space Program echoed the occult metaphors, rituals, and symbology of the Illuminati’s secret Talmudic religion. The most transparent was the faked explosion on Apollo 13 which was the metaphor for the initiation ceremony involving the death (explosion), placement in the coffin (period of uncertainty of their survival), communion with the spiritual world and the imparting of esoteric knowledge to the candidate (orbit and observation of the moon without physical contact), rebirth of the initiate (solution of problem and repairs), and the raising up by the grip of the lions paw (re-entry and recovery of Apollo 13). 13 is the number of death and rebirth, death and reincarnation, sacrifice, the Phoenix, the Christ (not the one you know), and the transition from the old to the new.

      No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles – if that high – above the Earth’s surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the moon in any publicly known space program..

      In fact, any intelligent high school student with a basic physics book can prove NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.

      The head of NASA at the time of the Apollo Space Program is now the Grand Commander of the Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction. All of the first astronauts were Freemasons. There is a photograph in the House of the Temple in Washington DC of Neil Armstrong on the moons surface (supposedly) in his spacesuit holding his Masonic Apron in front of his groin.

      The effect upon the people of the world was that, if we could go to the moon, other creatures from other worlds could also travel to our Earth. The escalation of the artificial alien threat scenario since that time is obvious and transparent.

      Regardless of what you have been led to believe, Senator Joseph McCarthy was absolutely correct and in fact the recent opening of the files of the KGB proved that he even knew the exact number of communist agents who had infiltrated our government. The revelations of history, the records of the KGB, and the recent release of the NSA deciphered cables to and from Moscow by the Venona Project have vindicated Senator Joseph McCarthy. He was destroyed by the Marxist, Jewish owned and controlled news media and Hollywood. The branding of anyone who dared to expose communists and their goal of the ultimate destruction of the United States of America as “McCarthyites” insured the increased infiltration and rapid takeover of our government by Marxist and communists over the intervening years.

      Many have succeeded in leading the sheeple away from the truth by presenting the artificial alien threat as a “government coverup”. Most of the well known uFOOLogists and so-called UFO researchers are Illuminati, Jewish or government change agents operating in furtherance of propagandizing and deceiving the American People.

      • CUB4DK

        Well if MABUS ever gets Here…then maybe WE shall get some Real Truth. MABUS sounds more like a Middleman or Moderater…or maybe the Equallizer :lol:

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