Washington - A quartet of "naked" stars, stripped of their nourishing cocoons of cosmic dust and gas, could give the best clues yet to how our own sun formed, US scientists reported yesterday.
Most sun-like stars develop in relative obscurity, feeding on dusty clouds that surround them, but these four stars in the Orion nebula were unmasked by blasts of ultraviolet radiation from massive stars growing nearby, the astronomers wrote in the journal Nature.
