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Nature 411, 251-252 (17 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35077189

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Astrophysics: A stellar performance

Kevin B. Marvel

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Using a network of telescopes spread across the United States, astronomers have made a movie of an expanding shell of gas that sheds light on the intricate processes of how a star is born.

Our galaxy is a big place. Even the most fundamental objects in galaxies, the stars themselves, are of huge dimensions compared to human scales and are separated by even greater distances — the Sun has a diameter of 1.