Astronomers Find Elusive Target Hiding Behind Dust
7 Jun 2020, 22:49 UTC
Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them. They used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to reveal one such region that previously had eluded detection, and that revelation answered a longstanding question.
