Core-collapse and star formation

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe When massive stars accumulate more iron than their centres can hold, they explode in what is known as a core-collapse supernova. Such

supernovae enrich the surrounding environment with elements, seeding the formation of other stars. Astronomers have linked the number of core-collapse supernovae in a galaxy to the rate of

star formation. Maria-Teresa Botticella at the Padua Astronomical Observatory in Italy and her colleagues compared star-formation estimates based on core-collapse explosions to those based

on more conventional measurements of galactic brightness. They found good agreement between their method and one of the two others studied. This is a preview of subscription content, access

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