Young Stellar Object IRAS 13481-6124 in its 'cradle' | NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Young Stellar Object IRAS 13481-6124 in its 'cradle' | NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Young Stellar Object IRAS 13481-6124 in its 'cradle' | NASA Spitzer Space TelescopeThe object IRAS 13481-6124 (the bright "star" upper left), consisting of a young central star, about twenty times the mass of our Sun and five times its radius, surrounded by its pre-natal cocoon, is the first massive baby star that astronomers could obtain an image of a dusty disc closely encircling it, providing direct evidence that massive stars do form in the …