A sunlike star's early development.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This infrared portrait of an embryonic sunlike star reveals an early, crucial step in the process of planet formation. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. most theories, the spinning cloud of gas and dust from which a star arises should begin to flatten as a planet-forming disk of material takes shape. At the same time, twin jets of gas should shoot out perpendicular to the forming disk. The Spitzer Space Telescope Spitzer Space Telescope: see infrared astronomy; observatory, orbiting. image of this developing, dust-shrouded star, called L1157, provides the first clear evidence that an envelope has begun to flatten, Leslie Looney of the University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific and her colleagues assert in the Dec. 1 Astrophysical Journal The Astrophysical Journal, often abbreviated to ApJ, is a scientific journal covering astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1895 by George Ellery Hale and James E. Keeler. It currently (October 2006) publishes three issues per month, with 500 pages per issue. Letters. Residing about 800 light-years from Earth, the star is only a few thousand years old and may reveal what our own sun looked like at its birth 4.5 billion years ago. The red haze is dust, and white parts of the jets are the hottest regions. |
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