A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
- Written by Aris Tritsis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
The dark band is the Dark Doodad Nebula, a place where new stars and planets can form.Flickr/cafuego, CC BY-SAWe know that the birthplaces of stars are large molecular clouds of gas and dust found in space.
But what exactly determines the number and kind of stars and planets that are formed in these clouds? How was our Solar system nursed and how...