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- Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: ALMA: Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
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Re: ALMA: Liberal Sprinkling of Salt Discovered around a Young Star
It's almost certain that salts exist around low-mass stars too, but it's possible they are never released into the gas phase around those stars because they don't heat their disks quite enough. In this object, Source I, which is a ~15 solar mass star, the region that got hot enough to release NaCl a...