To Make a Star, Add Ice and Stir[zz]# Astronomy - 天文
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By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET, 09 April 2002
The Sun burns hot enough to keep solids and liquids from forming on its
surface, yet like any star, it couldn’t have formed in the first place
without the help of ice.
Martin McCoustra, of the University of Nottingham’s school of chemistry,
will tell astronomers at the UK National Astronomy meeting today that an
interstellar cloud of gas depends on icy dust, roughly the size of the
particles in cigarette smoke, to shed excess heat bu
Staff Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET, 09 April 2002
The Sun burns hot enough to keep solids and liquids from forming on its
surface, yet like any star, it couldn’t have formed in the first place
without the help of ice.
Martin McCoustra, of the University of Nottingham’s school of chemistry,
will tell astronomers at the UK National Astronomy meeting today that an
interstellar cloud of gas depends on icy dust, roughly the size of the
particles in cigarette smoke, to shed excess heat bu