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Nature 416, 29-31 (7 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416029a
Astronomy: How big stars are made
Susana Lizano
Abstract
We know little about the formation of stars that are many times heavier than our Sun. A new model, which estimates how long massive stars take to form, could be tested with data from telescope arrays.
The formation of low-mass stars such as the Sun is relatively well understood1, because there are several regions near the Earth in which such stars have been observed in detail. But for massive stars (more than eight solar masses), which are generally formed at greater distances from our planet, the challenge to understand their formation process remains.
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