General Science
Protostar
▪ A team of researchers at the IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, recently discovered radio emission with a special property known as circular polarisation near a massive young protostar that is still forming about 4,500 light-years from Earth.
▪ A protostar is an early stage in the star formation process.
▪ It is a large mass of gas and dust formed as a result of the contraction of a giant molecular cloud in the interstellar medium.
▪ Protostars are usually surrounded by dust, which blocks the light that they emit, so they are difficult to observe in the visible spectrum.
