The first scientific results from ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory are revealing previously hidden details of star formation. New images show thousands of distant galaxies furiously building stars and beautiful star-forming clouds draped across the Milky Way. One picture even catches an 'impossible' star in the act of formation.
An impossible star is a star that exceeds 8 solar masses. They believe it to be impossible because the powerful force from the light would blast away the formation loud before it can grow larger. There are many of these stars in existence, but they did not understand how they formed. Now that they can see it from space, the scientists have observed one of the massive impossible stars form.
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