Stellar nurseries carry the stuff of life, long before stars
Organic compounds in nearby protostellar clouds point to star-planet evolution.
3 min readJun 19, 2020
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This mosaic of the Taurus Molecular Cloud is made from observations of nearby pre-stellar clouds, located 450 light-years from Earth. Young stars like HL Tauri — about 3 million years old — call these stellar nurseries home. But…