An international team of astronomers has observed in realtime the formation of jets of matter and energy that the supermassive star W75N(B)-VLA2 has been ejecting during its formation process.

The research project published in Science journal was led by Carlos Carrasco González (UNAM, Mexico) and carried with the collaboration of researchers from l'Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), l'Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) and l'Institut d'Astrofísica d'Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).

The study is particularly interesting since it is the first time scientist capture in realtime the whole process. This fact has allowed to observe the transition from the first regime in which the star ejects matter in a very spheroidal way (in all directions) and a second regime in which the star directs the jets in a preferred single direction.

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