Stellar nursery gives birth to quadruplets
Foursome helps test ideas about how stars form
![Four star system](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cc_B5_illustration.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
STELLAR FOURSOME A young star is flanked by tendrils of gas (illustrated, left) that will eventually collapse to form a quadruple star system (right).
B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)