We know little about the formation of stars that are many times heavier than our Sun. A new model, which estimates how long massive stars take to form, could be tested with data from telescope arrays.
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Lizano, S. How big stars are made. Nature 416, 29–31 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416029a
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