Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets

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Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

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[Torbjorn Larsson]

This looks an unexplained fact although spurious: ""We found that about 60% of the molecular clouds we observed had a filamentary structure with a width of about 0.3 light-years,".

But it seems it may be a problematic formulation, as that is the resolution of the survey:

We present an analysis of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) archival data at the spatial resolution of ~0.1 pc for 17 massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC; Z ~ 0.2 Z_⊙).