BALTIMORE, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Bright stars blasting ultraviolet radiation at forming stars have created a cosmic "caterpillar" captured by the Hubble space telescope, U.S. researcher say.
This caterpillar-shaped knot of dust and gas, called IRAS 20324+4057, is a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, reported Thursday.