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takyon writes in with a story about new star formation. Science Magazine is reporting on research[Abstract, full article pay walled] published on 2 April, 2015 in the journal Science. The paper details observations of a protostar in the early phases of formation. The protostar, named W75N(B)-VLA 2 was first observed in 1996.

Radio telescope observations in 1996 showed little structure in the protostar, while new (2014) observations showed significantly more structure in the protostar. From the Science Magazine article:

In teenagers as in stars, the first years of life are times of great change. A massive protostar that lies about 4250 light-years from Earth has undergone a dramatic evolution over the course of just 18 years, a new study reveals. In 1996, when scientists used a radio telescope to observe a star-forming region dubbed W75N(B), one of the objects in that cloud—called VLA 2—had very little structure: Its magnetic field wasn’t oriented in any particular direction, and the ionized material streaming from the star—its version of solar wind—spewed outward at similar speeds in all directions. But observations last year hint that the protostar’s stellar wind was flowing more quickly from the object’s poles (relative speeds depicted in bluish ovoid in image above), and its magnetic field had become aligned with that of the larger cloud of gas and dust that surrounds it[Abstract].

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Over the next few hundred thousand years, W75N(B)-VLA 2 will evolve into a star about six times the mass of our sun, team members estimate.

This story has also been covered by Astronomy.com, Phys.org, and the BBC.