News From the Field Large Keck Survey Identifies Young Binaries to Test Models of Star Formation
January 17, 2007
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Results from the largest survey of its kind have provided data to test theories describing how small, relatively cool but numerous "M-class" stars are born and change over time. The results will help scientists understand how the most common type of stars in the universe form in molecular clouds, and how--and at what rate--they develop.
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Source W. M. Keck Observatory; Lowell Observatory
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