<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/475b358c-b4f0-44d9-b777-d0cce9cddc54/22ABDE3A-54CF-45FF-B0EC-6B78E50E20BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090803.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090803.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090803.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/787E87BC-39E6-48B9-8254-A06B52180F27" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090803.html">What does a star look like when it is forming? The prototypical example is the <A href="http://www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/0201.shtml">variable star T Tauri</A>, visible as the bright orange star near the image center. The orange star centered in this remarkable <A href="http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1057.html">telescopic skyview</A> is T Tauri, prototype of the class of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Tauri_star">T Tauri variable</A> stars. Surrounding T Tauri is a dusty yellow cosmic cloud named the <A href="http://www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/0201.shtml">Hind</A>'s Variable Nebula (NGC 1555/1554). Over 400 light-years away, at the edge of a <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090623.html">molecular cloud</A>, both star and nebula <A href="http://mira.aavso.org/pipermail/aavso-discussion/ 2004-December/011285.html">are seen</A> to vary significantly in brightness but not necessarily at the same time, adding to the mystery of the intriguing region. T Tauri stars are now generally recognized as young -- less than a few million years old -- sun-like stars still in the <A href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/ gravc.html">early</A> stages of <A href="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/ StarForm.html">formation</A>. To <A href="http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406337">further</A> complicate the picture, <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mV4ecEbV1s">infrared</A> observations indicate that <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Tauri">T Tauri itself</A> is part of a multiple star system. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22ABDE3A-54CF-45FF-B0EC-6B78E50E20BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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