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The spectacular moment universe's newest and youngest star 'was born'

Astronomers at the American Ivy League universities discovered the youngest known star in the Perseus star-forming region, about 800 light-years or more than 4700 trillion miles away from the Milky Way.
Despite its tiny size, scientists believe they caught the precise moment the star, called L1448-IRS2E, was formed born. It is the most detailed glimpse of a star's birth to date and is undetectable to the naked eye or amateur astronomers.
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Astronomers Witness a Star Being Born

Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust, according to a new study that appears in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
The studys authors - who include astronomers from Yale University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany - found the object using the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Known as L1448-IRS2E, its located in the Perseus star-forming region, about 800 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy.
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