Bubbles Forming Around 40-solar-mass Star (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Bubbles Forming Around 40-solar-mass Star

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This simulation shows how bubbles form over the course of 4.7 million years from the intense stellar winds off a massive star. UChicago scientists postulated how our own solar system could have formed in the dense shell of such a bubble.

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V. Dwarkadas/D. Rosenberg

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