X-ray telescopes have captured the earliest and clearest view of the core of a gas cloud about to transform into a star. Most intriguing to astronomers is evidence suggesting that some force other than gravity is hastening the transition.
BABY BLAST. X rays (arrow) detected from an embryonic star. Hamaguchi, et al.,
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