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Infant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles
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Astronomers have discovered some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory; dense envelopes of gas and dust surround the fledging stars known as protostars, make their detection difficult until now.
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Credit lineInfant Stars Peek Out from Dusty Cradles. NASA/JPL, 2013-03-19. Public domain. ID: PIA16839.