Look up into the sky on a clear night, and you’re likely to glimpse thousands of stars dotting the cosmos. Add a telescope into the mix, and suddenly millions more come into view .
The Milky Way is brimming with an estimated hundred billions stars, giant balls of hot gas , including our galaxy’s most famous – the sun. But outside of our home galaxy? The number of stars is near unfathomable.
Yet getting a handle on observing stars, which form in large molecular clouds of gas and dust, is crucial to better understand not only how they evolve, but how our universe grows and changes with them, astronomers say…