Topic: CSIRO telescope spots mega-star cradle

[sam]

Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself -- a discovery which could help solve one of astronomy's enduring conundrums: "How do massive stars form?"

http://www.physorg.com/news191657097.html

[Clive]

If that was at the same distance as the Orion Nebula it might be visible with the naked eye. 

[sam]

indeed!