Word: herbig
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Astronomer George H. Herbig of Lick Observatory took a photograph of a small area in the Orion nebula, which is 1,600 light years (9,600 trillion miles) away from the earth. It showed three faint stars embedded in a cloud of dust and gas. At last week's Dublin meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Dr. Herbig displayed a recent picture of the same region. The picture showed five stars, two of which may be newborn. The light from the new stars, of course, took 1,600 years to reach the earth, so the stars were actually born...
...understanding of what is taking place," said Dr. Herbig, "could hardly be more incomplete, but it may be that we have witnessed the opening phase of an episode in stellar evolution...
...Herbig's new-found stars prove to be real infants, they will reinforce the idea, already held by many astronomers, that stars are being formed continuously out of dust and gas in space...