Source: China – South China Morning PostSome stars nearing the end of their lives slow their spin in a “retirement solo” that not only shows the end is nigh but also how others are born.
Chinese astronomers have used this cosmic dance to look into the Milky Way’s past and find that stars born today spin much faster than those formed billions of years ago.
Using data from Europe’s Gaia space telescope and other sky surveys, researchers at the Changchun Observatory in northeastern China studied thousands of stars, each with a mass…Read More