New Types Of Hidden Stars Found We Hadn’t Noticed Before
Before the invention of telescopic astronomy, observations could only be made of one little patch of the sky at a time.
Modern sky surveys may complete tasks that used to take years in a matter of weeks or days, making it possible to see changes in the sky in real time.
Over a ten-year period, the scientists have reviewed data from the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA) in several articles published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The goal of the study was to locate and examine young stars that are still developing changing into fully formed.
32 protostars with strong outbursts were found during the survey, these stars’ brightness increases ranged from 40 to 300 times their initial magnitude.
The intense eruptions take place in the disk of materials surrounding freshly born stars and can endure for months or even years.
These explosions could speed up a young star’s development, but they could also prevent planets from forming.
Protostars that go through this kind of turmoil are called squalling infants.
They came across twenty-one red massive stars with notable brightness variations.
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