Why do stars form inside dusty blobs? | Space Is Weird - Bok Globules

Описание: Bok Globules; as well as being the most fun phrase to say they are some of the Universe's more mysterious objects. Shrouds of dust and hydrogen gas cocooning star formation in nebulae. Turns out the birth of all stars in the Universe might be hidden from us...

Bok & Reilly (1947) - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947ApJ...
Lin-Yun & Clemens (1990) - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990ApJ...
Reipurth (1997) - http://heritage.stsci.edu/2002/01/pap...

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