Editing Star formation (section)

===Notable pathfinder objects===
*[[MWC 349]] was first discovered in 1978, and is estimated to be only 1,000 years old.
*VLA 1623 – The first exemplar Class 0 protostar, a type of embedded protostar that has yet to accrete the majority of its mass. Found in 1993, is possibly younger than 10,000 years.<ref name="AndreWard-Thompson1993">{{cite journal |last1=Andre |first1=Philippe |last2=Ward-Thompson |first2=Derek |last3=Barsony |first3=Mary |title=Submillimeter continuum observations of Rho Ophiuchi A - The candidate protostar VLA 1623 and prestellar clumps |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=406 |year=1993 |pages=122–141 |issn=0004-637X |doi=10.1086/172425 |bibcode=1993ApJ...406..122A|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[L1014]] – An extremely faint embedded object representative of a new class of sources that are only now being detected with the newest telescopes. Their status is still undetermined, they could be the youngest low-mass Class 0 protostars yet seen or even very low-mass evolved objects (like [[brown dwarf]]s or even [[rogue planet]]s).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bourke |first1=Tyler L. |last2=Crapsi |first2=Antonio |last3=Myers |first3=Philip C. |display-authors=etal |title=Discovery of a Low-Mass Bipolar Molecular Outflow from L1014-IRS with the Submillimeter Array |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=633 |issue=2 |pages=L129 |year=2005 |doi=10.1086/498449 |arxiv = astro-ph/0509865 |bibcode = 2005ApJ...633L.129B |s2cid=14721548 }}</ref>
*[[GCIRS 8*]] – The youngest known [[main sequence]] star in the [[Galactic Center]] region, discovered in August 2006. It is estimated to be 3.5 million years old.<ref name="GeballeNajarro2006">{{cite journal |last1=Geballe |first1=T. R. |last2=Najarro |first2=F. |last3=Rigaut |first3=F. |last4=Roy |first4=J.-R. |title=The K-Band Spectrum of the Hot Star in IRS 8: An Outsider in the Galactic Center? |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=652 |issue=1 |year=2006 |pages=370–375 |issn=0004-637X |doi=10.1086/507764 |bibcode=2006ApJ...652..370G |arxiv=astro-ph/0607550|s2cid=9998286 }}</ref>