New SOFIA observations help unravel mysteries of the birth of colossal suns
(WorldNews Germany)

The joint NASA/DLR SOFIA airborne observatory is seen during ground testing in 2015. Credit: NASA Scientists are using SOFIA to survey young stars more than ten-times the mass of the Sun in an ongoing study to understand how massive stars form in our galaxy. Astronomers are observing star-forming regions in our galaxy with NASA´s flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, to understand the processes and environments required to create the largest known stars, which tip the scales at ten times the mass of our own Sun or more. The research team, led by James M. De Buizer, SOFIA senior scientist, and Jonathan Tan at Chalmers University of Technology,...