Stellar associations and ongoing star formation (Ambartsumian)
Asociaciones estelares y formación estelar continua (Ambartsumian)
- Date
- 1947 · confidence high
- Place
- Byurakan Observatory, Aragatsotn, Armenia
- Credited to
- Viktor Ambartsumian
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Ambartsumian found that groups of young hot stars (OB and T associations) disperse within a few million years and therefore that stars are still forming in the Galaxy. The finding overturned the idea of simultaneous formation.
What it led to
- the Byurakan Observatory (1946) as a world centre
- the theory of continuing star formation
- his ideas on active galactic nuclei