Better than 2010 Sequel to Space Odysseyy: 2001

Herschel Space Observatory 2009

clipped from www.sciencenews.org Herschel Space Observatory sees stars being born Peering into the heart of a dust-covered stellar nursery, a new infrared observatory has spied some 700 stars in the making. At the moment, the soon-to-be stars are just clumps of dust and gas. But about 100 of the clumps are protostars, embryonic bodies about to initiate nuclear fusion at their cores and become bona fide stars. The other 600 objects are less mature but will ultimately develop into new stars.