An international team led by Takeshi Sakai of the University of Electro-Communication, Japan, used the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radiotelescope to study a newborn star. Known only as G34.43+00.24 MM3 or more simply as MM3, this star is so young that it’s still surrounded by a huge cocoon of gas, a cloud about ten times larger than any other observed around stars of solar mass.