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Secret ingredient exposed

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Astronomers have suspected for some time that magnetic fields are a key ingredient in the accretion of material that surrounds young stars. New observations have just begun to reveal these fields in action. See Letter p.597

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Figure 1: Accretion disks around newly formed stars.

Mark McCughrean (Max-Planck–Inst. Astron.); C. Robert O'Dell (Rice Univ.); NASA

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