Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136, 60,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Physical Review Letters, ...

The kinematic age distribution in Fig. 3 shows when the runaway stars were ejected. The intrinsic distribution of the kinematic ages was estimated using Gaussian kernel density estimation, which ...

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When giant clouds of neutral, cool, molecular gas collapse, they give rise to new stars, with the largest ones containing enough gas to birth many millions of them. The vast majority of the newborns ...