As I write this, somewhere far far away, a star is about to be born. It is out there in the Milky Way, pulsating, pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust and emitting a thin ray of light. Astronomers across the globe are waiting and watching what this new object which they are fondly calling L1448-IRS2E holds in store for them.
What makes L1448-IRS2E special? Astronomers have over the years studied the formation of stars and the phases through which L1448-IRS2E is going through will provide them more insight into the life and development cycle of a star.
Why is it in the news? Astronomers from Yale University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany - found the object using the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope and published their research in the latest issue of the Astrophysical Journal. And it has started off the buzz which normally surrounds the birth of a star.
So, that brings us to the question of how the stars are formed. It is something i have always been interested in... let me find out more... So, long guys!
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