Initial seriesThe team’s initial series of papers, published recently, has offered new insights into the amazing process of star formation. There are certain aspects of star formation that are little understood. The GLOSTAR project used two powerful radio telescopes, the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), US, and the Effelsberg 100-metre radio telescope operated by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Germany. Two aspectsThere are two groundbreaking aspects to the GLOSTAR survey, according to him. Earlier instruments allowed you to study the early stages of high-mass star formation alone or the late stages.

Source: The Hindu July 23, 2021 19:41 UTC