The resulting high concentration of molecular gas can fuel star-formation activity in the circumnuclear region.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Horsefeathers" – NGC 7770/71 Galaxy Group by Ken Crawford | Universe Today] Reference

With this data, we can learn how massive stars form, map galactic spiral arms and make a better estimate of our galaxy's star-formation rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get the Big Picture of the Milky Way at the Adler Planetarium | Universe Today] Reference

This is an active star-formation region in the Orion Nebula, as seen By Planck.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Very active star-formation is most likely also occurring in the central regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A low activity, star-formation region in the constellation Perseus, as seen with Planck.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This high star-formation rate has been almost continuous for the past 100 million years.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

The astronomers looked at star-formation rates and the rate at which hydrogen was ionized.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Although vigorously star-forming, the underlying physics of the star-formation processes at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Astronomers pieced together this star-formation story with the help of Hubble's sharp vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Astronomers pieced together the galaxy's star-formation story with the help of Hubble's sharp vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Dust near the central black hole may be visible in the infrared, but so are the galaxy's star-formation regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

Thus, if they want to compare our Galaxy to distant ones they must first understand high-mass star-formation here.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Another paper that details the star-formation history in galaxy M81 has been submitted to The Astronomical Journal.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Stars form from giant gas clouds in galaxies - the star-formation rate, however, has changed over cosmic timescales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com] Reference

These samples will be used to construct a unified picture of star-formation and stellar mass buildup in early galaxies.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

For example, Spitzer's YSO data, processed by a star-formation computer model, suggests our galaxy produces one sunlike star a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

These twins, which were found in the region of the Taurus-Auriga star-formation complex, are the youngest of their kind ever detected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Image Gallery] Reference

Accordingly, they calculated that the rate of ionization would be very slow during this early time, because of this low star-formation rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The dendrogram star-formation work was led by Alyssa Goodman, astronomy prof at Harvard and founder of the Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

N11's billowing pink clouds of glowing gas and the dramatic and colorful features visible in the burgeoning nebula are telltale signs of star-formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference

Measuring the star-formation rate at the site of the supernova from colors in the HST images may be the best way to differentiate between these classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Recent studies suggest two populations of type Ia supernovae: a class that explodes promptly after star-formation and one that is delayed by billions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

The compression of gas involved in galaxy interactions can enhance the star-formation rate and give rise to brilliant bursts of star formation in merging systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spaceflight Now] Reference

Fellow Lowell predoc Hongxin Zhang is looking closely at existing ultraviolet and optical data sets from the galaxies, helping define their star-formation histories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

In a separate paper describing the star-formation history in M81, astronomers confirmed that massive spiral galaxies formed most of their stars in the early Universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Astronomers were surprised to find that star-formation activities in the outer regions of NGC 2976 have been virtually asleep because they shut down millions of years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

"IC 3418's tail of star-formation demonstrates that strong turbulence promotes cloud formation," said Mark Seibert, a co-author of the paper and a member of the Galaxy Evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

"We were surprised by how quickly the elements formed and how the subsequent star-formation rate for the bulk of the stars in M81 changed after that", said Williams, the paper's lead author.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

That will let us study M31's star-formation processes in much greater detail than previously possible. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

(2) The dust extinction in the rest-frame UV, and therefore a correction to their present star-formation rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference