01-04-2017, 07:05 PM
An immature star has a bit of a tantrum.
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-astronomers...young.html
"Astronomers from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia have discovered a strong outburst of the embedded young stellar object (YSO) designated UKIDSS-J185318.36+012454.5. This newly detected event could provide important insights for the understanding of eruptive variability of young stars. The researchers presented their discovery in a paper published Dec. 30 on the arXiv preprint server."
This comes from the UKIDDS survey carried out by UKIRT on Mauna Kea for a number of years. It was a survey of the northern hemisphere sky in the infrared for UK astronomers and partners, but as the data came in they were released to the worldwide community a year after being taken so everyone had a chance to make discoveries.
http://www.ukidss.org/
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-astronomers...young.html
"Astronomers from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia have discovered a strong outburst of the embedded young stellar object (YSO) designated UKIDSS-J185318.36+012454.5. This newly detected event could provide important insights for the understanding of eruptive variability of young stars. The researchers presented their discovery in a paper published Dec. 30 on the arXiv preprint server."
This comes from the UKIDDS survey carried out by UKIRT on Mauna Kea for a number of years. It was a survey of the northern hemisphere sky in the infrared for UK astronomers and partners, but as the data came in they were released to the worldwide community a year after being taken so everyone had a chance to make discoveries.
http://www.ukidss.org/