"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Orion, Pleiades, and Hyades may be stages of one star system’s life, revealing how star clusters form and change.

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.