Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster
Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiationwhich can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatoryin combination with […]