Massive protostar keeps growing despite ionization heating by ultraviolet light

A gigantic embryonic star is still getting bigger, even though it propels vast plumes of hot gas away from itself, RIKEN astronomers have found. The discovery could help to solve an enduring mystery about how massive stars grow so large.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-02-massive-protostar-ionization-ultraviolet.html