* Astronomy

Star-birth myth 'busted'
An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIROs Parkes radio telescope.
When a cloud of interstellar gas collapses to form stars, the stars range from massive to minute.
Since the 1950s astronomers have thought that in a family of new-born stars the ratio of massive stars to lighter ones was always pretty much the same - for instance, that for every star 20 times more massive than the Sun or larger, youd get 500 stars the mass of the Sun or less.

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