Scientists made a never-before-seen star discovery

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a "litter" of newborn stars. The image, taken by the ALMA telescope in Chile, captured the stars while they were being "born." This allowed astronomers to receive a glimpse into how these stars are formed.

The image also confirms a theory as to why stars might be near one another. Scientists suspected that new stars formed in an existing star's "protoplanetary disk," or rotating gas surrounding the star. Sometimes the disk is so dense that it attracts other material, eventually becoming so dense and hot that a new star emerges.

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The new star system is called L1448 IRS3B. It is 750 light-years from Earth. While the stars were born at the same time, they are not identical.

While the system is pretty far away, the finding is relevant for our solar system too. Since the sun is the only star of this kind in our solar system, scientists want to study the new stars in hopes to find out why that is.