Big stars give birth to little stars in new WISE pic
NASA's WISE space telescope has stitched together a panoramic view of the Milky Way where stars are born. A section of the Milky Way WISE mosaic of a section of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) scope has taken a 1,000-square-degree shot of a stretch of cosmic …
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Wednesday 11th January 2012 18:54 GMT JimC
Eh?
> since the astronomers usually only have a few pictures from the lifecycle of any one star
I suppose I'm suffering from failing to read the article (guilty as charged if so) but how do they get pictures of more than one stage in the lifecycle of *any* one star?
Paris, 'cos I'm clearly no brighter than she would be on this topic...