Extreme magnetic fields preventing stars from being born
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(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, Samuel Crowe (UVA), John Bally (CU), Ruben Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), Ian Heywood (Oxford))
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Stars are the
architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe,
including ones crucial to life as we know it, such as carbon and oxygen.
Yet, despite decades of research, aspects of star formation are as
mysterious as the dense, dark clouds of gas in which baby stars are
embedded. The James Webb Space Telescope's observations of Sagittarius C
(Sgr C), a star-forming region at the Milky Way's heart that appears to
form fewer stars than expected, are shedding new light on some of these
enigmatic processes.
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