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While it is still impossible to determine which, if either, is correct, Hartman says that recent data shows that young stars spin slowly. Moreover, this suggests that the disk theory is incorrect, as it says that stars should be rapidly rotating when formed...
...Hartman of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, one of the new theory's pioneers, and his colleagues, including-John Stauffer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada, have shown that stars spin at various speeds during their lifetimes. These scientists are currently devoting much of their energy and time to decipering this curious behavior...
...Hartman explains that if a forming star does not rid itself of its spin efficiently, its rotation increases too rapidly as it contracts. The acceleration produced by the rotation can cancel the force of gravity and prevent the final collapse into a compact normal star...
Even using this telescope, "all of the stars we've looked at are a few hundred light years from the Sun," Hartman says...
...last, this is one of the reasons Hartman, as a student, decided to explore the properties of young stars...