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A great wealth of observational information about young stars has been obtained at infrared and longer wavelengths in the last decade. Combined with continued theoretical progress, these observations have pushed our understanding of the overall star formation process to a satisfying level. We now believe that we understand the phases a dense interstellar cloud passes through in the process of becoming a young star, and we have observational examples of most of those phases. ISO will play a major role in testing this preliminary understanding of star formation, and in suggesting where it needs to be modified.
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Boss, A.P. (1998). Protostars and Protoplanetary Disks. In: Dyson, J., et al. Astrophysics and Space Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5076-7_2
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