Astronomers observed developing star ‘W75N(B)-VLA 2’ for 18 years till it reached adulthood

People usually think that a star just exist just where it stands but a group of scientists has proved it wrong. They have observed the growth of a young star until it reached adulthood.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory astronomers were amazed to see the development of the young star over a period of 18 years.

The star is named ‘W75N(B)-VLA 2’ by the astronomers. They even did the comparison between two of the stars images, one captured during its beginning and another after it had developed.

The team of astronomers used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, obtained from the National Science Foundation, to study the star. The image of the developed star was captured in 2014 and was compared to the one taken earlier in 1996.

According to one of the members, Carlos Carrasco-Gonzales from the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Center of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics, the difference between the two images is pretty amazing.

They observed that in the image taken in 1996, hot ionized wind was gushing out of the young star, whereas the 2014 image displayed that the wind has turned into an elongated object.

Gonzales said, “We’re seeing this dramatic change in real time, so this object is providing us an exciting opportunity to watch over the next few years as a very young star goes through the early stages of its formation”.

The astronomers were very happy to see that their initial predictions about the star have come true. They found that the star is spherical in shape and is surrounded by torus of winds. These winds can alter the shape and speed of the star.

The astronomers said the development of the W75N(B)-VLA 2 star is more uniform and predictable as it has huge size and weight, eight times greater to the Sun of the Solar System. They believe that Sun’s formation is quite different as compared to the one that they have observed.