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A detailed study of young stars and their surroundings has produced dramatic new evidence about how multiple-star systems form and how the dusty disks that are the raw material for planets grow around young stars. Teams of scientists used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope to study nearly 100 newborn stars in a cloud of gas and dust about 750 light-years from Earth in which new stars are forming.
Images made from the study showed unprecedented detail of a number of the young stars, and are helping astronomers resolve important questions about how stars, binary stars, and planets get their starts.Image credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
