http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1265 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/star-factory-near-galactic-center-bathed-high-energy-x-rays <!--paging_filter--><p>A team of astronomers, including some from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has looked into the core of our own Milky Way galaxy and discovered a new phenomenon. The "cauldron" of 60-million-degree gas surrounding a group of young stars in the Arches Cluster supports earlier theoretical predictions about what happens when solar winds from massive stars collide with each other: they form very hot gas and generate X-rays. The discovery was made by a research team headed by Professor Farhad Zadeh of Northwestern University. The team used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make its observations. Massive stars, newborn stars, and stellar winds have long been known to emit X-rays.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/star-factory-near-galactic-center-bathed-high-energy-x-rays">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:13:41 -0400 70652986 2989 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu