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Astrophysics:  How to make a massive star

Barbara A. Whitney1

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Two competing theories have been applied to the formation of high-mass stars. Observations of two stellar systems now suggest that the accretion model has a weightier claim than its rival merger model.

How do high-mass stars form? Through accretion — the gravitational collapse of a dense cloud of gas and dust1 — as do better-understood stars of lower mass like the Sun?

  1. Barbara A. Whitney is at the Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA.
    Email: bwhitney@spacescience.org

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