Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

Hundreds of protostars have been identified with X-ray technology scattered all the way across the "Great Pink Cloud" we are looking at. The Lagoon Nebula is truly a star making machine.