Stars born in radiation-filled tornado

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

This interesting article was pulled from reuters News Service.
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    LONDON  - New stars are being born in
radiation-filled tornados that are whirling through space,
astronomers said Thursday.
     The discovery was made in the heart of Lagoon Nebula, 5,000
light years away in the Sagittarius constellation, by a team of
British, Canadian, Swedish and German astronomers.
     ``The pictures show an object like a tornado. Stars recently born
there are causing the material to be disturbed, producing the vortex
structure,'' said British astronomer Glenn White.
     The astronomers said in a statement that this newly
discovered stellar ``factory'' is heated by radiation from the
newly formed stars.
     ``It's rather like a naked-eye astronomer, who previously
only was aware of the bright sun and the much fainter stars,
suddenly noticing something in the sky as bright as the moon,''
they said.
     The discovery was made possible by a powerful new radio
telescope in Hawaii which picked up wavelength radiation from
the nebula.

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