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The well-known constellation Taurus is home to many young stars, and the details of star formation are explained by observing far-infrared radiation from several of these objects with the Herschel space observatory.
Many aspects of the star forming process, especially the process to form massive stars (greater than 8 solar masses), remain unknown. This paper distinguishes between two stages of star formation by fitting models to observations of several young stellar objects in the giant molecular cloud G333.