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Dominique Segura-Cox, astronomy graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in re: Her discovery of a new class of baby stars using the VLA. A baby star, IRS-63 (class 1 proto-star): bright yellow center, with a scattershot of gas around it. Theory is that stars and planets are married; what’s interesting about this star: clear lanes of material that had been swept out, made grooves in the disc. (Constellation: Man Grasping a Snake). Star didn't even exist 500,000 years ago. Neanderthals staring at sky seeing its birth. Giant dust clouds collapse to make [stars and planets?] Is 144 parsecs from Earth.
The Fate of Our Solar System Five Billion Years from Now: and Perhaps of all White dwarfs10/24/2020
Photo: Cat's Eye Nebula: a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star.
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