“For these stars to have produced a signal this strong, they had to be very massive stars, much bigger than what we see in the Universe.”
Alexander Kashlinsky
“It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form.”
Lori Allen
“The massive amount of damage caused significant disruption for Gulf Coast residents. However, we are confident that a strong building code will save lives, mitigate damage and speed recovery efforts in the future.”
William Stander
“In the solar neighborhood and in most stellar clusters, the least massive stars are the most common by far. Our observations with [the Very Large Telescope in Chile] show this is not the case for Messier 12.”
Guido de Marchi
“These planetary systems, if they do form and exist, are short lived because these massive stars explode as supernovae. So it's amazing that the raw material for planets could be found in such a hostile environment.”
Joel Kastner
“There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star.”
Jeff Hester
“If these [earliest stars] were very massive and formed in the standard cosmological mode, they should have left a signature in the fluctuations of the CIB. That's the signal we sought to measure with these observations.”
