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Published online 25 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060821-13
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Key stars have different birthdays
Astronomers tear up textbooks over stellar nurseries.
In a complex Universe, astronomers thought they had at least one simple system to tell them how stars are born. Turns out they were wrong.
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