An article published in the journal “Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan” reports the mapping of three interstellar clouds: Orion A, Aquila Rift, and M17. A team of researchers led by Professor Fumitaka Nakamura of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) used the Nobeyama radio telescope and for Orion A also data from the CARMA radio telescope array archive to achieve this result. This is an investigation not surprisingly called the Star Formation Project because the three interestellar clouds studied are nurseries for new stars.