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A dark cloud unveils its secrets

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Massive stars, with masses ten or more times that of the Sun, dominate our Universe. Theories of how these stars form are now being challenged by observations of a collapsing cloud of gas and dust.

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Figure 1: Collapsing cloud.

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  1. Jonathan C. Tan is in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.,

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Tan, J. A dark cloud unveils its secrets. Nature 500, 537–538 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500537a

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