A young star cluster does not begin life in the open. It starts buried inside thick clouds of gas and dust, hidden from ordinary view while newborn stars heat, ionize, and push against the material around them. Now, observations from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes suggest that the biggest clusters do not stay hidden for long. In four nearby galaxies, astronomers found that more massive young star clusters clear away their birth cloud…
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