Researchers have seen newborn red stars dimly shining from the cocoons of dust and gas out of which they formed.
Astronomers made this discovery using the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), which studies the near-infrared part of the spectrum.
Fortunately, dust does not block near-infrared radiation as it does visible light, so the telescope can image small, cool stars. VISTA, which uses a mirror 4.1 meters in diameter, is part of