The discovery of what may be the best example yet of a forming star caught in the moments just before birth provides a missing link in our understanding of how giant gas clouds collapse to form fully fledged stars. See Letter p.83
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Clarke, D. A truly embryonic star. Nature 492, 52–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/492052a
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