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Very young stars lurk unseen in clouds of gas and dust in space, where they were born. In the direction of the Orion constellation, there is a vast cloud complex crucial for truly understanding the life and death of stars.
Accurate proper motions of the protostellar system VLA 1623-2417
Garnica, Ricardo Hernández; Loinard, Laurent; Carrasco-González, Carlos; Ordóñez-Toro, Jazmín; Ramírez-Arellano, Johanan; Maureira, María José; Radley, Isaac C.; Bianchi, Eleonora; Chandler, Claire J.; Rodríguez, Luis F.; Torres, Rosa M.; Palau, Aina
2026/09, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 551, stag1411
What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.
