Starship Asterisk*

There are a remarkable number of "star strings" in today's APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090117.html

Are most young stars born into cosmic tadpole fry litters/broods "about 10 light-years long."?
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<<Potentially sites of ongoing star formation,
these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long.>>
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060111.html
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Where have our sun's siblings drifted off to after 5 billion years?

The three concentric strings forming part of a bullseye are quite a phenomenon .. reminds me a bit of the photograph of (I think it was an electron?) I saw recently .. with the nebula looking like a jellyfish.