People have looked at the stars for thousands of years, but only about 20 years ago did astronomers become interested in the stuff inbetween.
Reversing their focus on the sky, astronomers can see that dark patches in the Milky Way are really giant molecular clouds. These big blobs of gas can be many times the size of the sun. Eventually, these clouds fall in on themselves, the cool gas becomes hot and dense and a star is born.

It started when she was just 10. Always on a weekend morning when her mother had gone to work. Hannah's father would take her into his room and force her to perform oral sex and intercourse. With a drawer full of sex toys, he carried out his kinky fantasies on his not-yet-pubescent daughter. He would brag to her about his infidelity with other women and how he forced Hannah's mother into threesomes.

Anita Roddick lives her life between a rock and a rubber bullet. On one hand, she is the CEO of a large international corporation. On the other hand, she is a passionate activist for issues of justice and the environment.
These two things don’t normally go hand in hand, as Anita has discovered.
"The left don’t like me because I run a successful business and the right don’t like me because they think I’m just spouting off all this left-wing stuff."