Regulators, mount up! 🌟 A new study has revealed a star cluster that can regulate itself, allowing only a limited number of stars to grow before the biggest and brightest among them expel most of the gas from the system. This process is thought to restrict new star creation. Astronomers used data from NASAChandraXRay, NASA’s airborne sofiatelescope, the APEX telescope, and ESA’s Herschel space observatory to study a distant star-forming complex located in the Milky Way about 2,900 light-years from Earth. These types of star-forming areas are made up of large gas clouds that are rich in the stellar components needed to form new stars. By analyzing data from this comprehensive array of telescopes, astronomers are able to witness that the powerful stars near the center of the cluster are expelling most of the raw materials within the star-forming region at high rates, on a course to deplete star-forming resources in about one to two million years. Although millions of years seem like ...