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The center of the Milky Way is a chaotic region with a storm of gas, but astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered a calm area where gas slows and begins to form new stars. This suggests that the process of star formation may be similar everywhere, indicating that our Sun likely originated from a similar tranquil zone billions of years ago.
The centre of the Milky Way is one of the most violent places in the Galaxy, a churning storm of gas moving faster than sound, and about the last spot you would expect a star to be born. Yet astronomers mapping that chaos with the ALMA telescope have stumbled on a hidden pocket of calm, where the gas slows, settles and quietly begins gathering itself into the seeds of new stars. The find suggests stars may take their first steps the same way everywhere, even here, and that our own Sun was likely born from just such an island of stillness, billions of years ago.
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