Data Shows How Stars Form

We spend a lot of time here talking about how TARTLE can help advance a variety of fields through our data marketplace. Whether it’s medical science, tracking the effects of human activity on the climate, or even fields focused on the past like archeology, TARTLE can be of use. Through the sharing of information, both with colleagues and laymen who might have valuable data new advances in understanding can be made, advances that may not happen for years otherwise, if at all. Today, we turn our gaze to the stars and the field of astronomy, specifically star formation. It’s long been understood that an individual star forms from the slow accretion of gasses into a ball large enough that the pressures and heat generated by its own gravitational force begin a self-sustaining fusion reaction that will go on for billions of years. However, a number of questions remain. Why do some clouds only produce relatively small stars like our own sun while others birth massive giants like Betelgeuse and Rigel in the c