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A truly embryonic star

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The discovery of what may be the best example yet of a forming star caught in the moments just before birth provides a missing link in our understanding of how giant gas clouds collapse to form fully fledged stars. See Letter p.83

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Figure 1: The Orion nebula.

CAMBRIDGE ASTRON . SURV. UNIT/J. EMERSON/VISTA/ESO

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  1. Department of Astronomy and Physics, David A. Clarke is at the Institute for Computational Astrophysics, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada.,

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Clarke, D. A truly embryonic star. Nature 492, 52–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/492052a

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