Radio Telescope Array Reveals the Masses of Hidden Young Stars

An artist's impression of two young stars dancing together in their Orion Nebula birthplace. They're hidden by clouds of gas and dust but radio telescopes can pierce those clouds to allow astronomers to study them in detail. Courtesy NSF/VLBA/NRAO

The Orion Nebula provides a master class in the study of newly born stars as the closest starbirth region to us. Yet, many of its youngest ones are still swaddled in their birth creches, hidden by clouds of gas and dust. The Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescopes have managed to punch through the dusty obscuring veil to study a pair of young binary systems called Brun 656 and HD 294300 born in the Nebula.

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