Two articles, one published in “The Astrophysical Journal” and one in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters”, report a census of what were called stellar embryos in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. A team of researchers used the ALMA radio telescope to observe 32 prestellar objects and 7 protostars that offer new insights into the processes leading to the birth of stars. One of the articles focuses on the discovery of a bipolar outflow formed by a pair of gas streams that could be clues to the birth of a star.