The discovery of a very tiny young star has taken place far away from any star forming area. The area is so isolated that astronomers are baffled about how it came to be.

With the help of data collected by several observatories, researchers came to know that the star known as CX330 is undergoing an outburst. The energetic phase in the youth of the star has heated up the surrounding gas and dust, making it shine in infrared radiation.

The detection of its outburst has already placed it in an uncommon collection of stellar objects, but the thing making CX330 unique is its apparent loneliness. To be frank, the star must not be there and in preliminary observations there wasn’t any surety that it was even a star.

In a statement, Chris Britt, of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and main author of a study focusing on CX330, said that they tried different interpretations for it, but just one of them made sense that the formation of the quickly growing young star has taken place amid nowhere. The study has appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Britt's team compared infrared observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope, and discovered that the brightness of the star had increased 100-fold between 2007 and 2010. Just about 12 stars exhibiting this kind of quick outburst have been documented, but the thing is all of them were discovered in dense star-forming areas inhabited by other young stars. Such stellar nurseries are hothouses for the formation of stars.

But, CX330 is present at a distance of 1,000 light-years from the closest star forming area, making the researchers wonder about how it ended up by itself in a place which seems to be an empty void.

According to a report in Phys by Elizabeth Landau, "The unusual object, called CX330, was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009 by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory while it was surveying the bulge in the central region of the Milky Way. Further observations indicated that this object was emitting optical light as well. With only these clues, scientists had no idea what this object was."

Astronomers looked at data about the object from a variety of other observatories, including the ground-based SOAR, Magellan, and Gemini telescopes. They also used the large telescope surveys VVV and the OGLE-IV to measure the intensity of light emitted from CX330. By combining all of these different perspectives on the object, a clearer picture emerged.

How did CX330 become so isolated? One idea is that it may have been born in a star-forming region, but was ejected into its present lonely pocket of the galaxy. But this is unlikely, astronomers say. Because CX330 is in a youthful phase of its development-likely less than 1 million years old-and is still eating its surrounding disk, it must have formed near its present location in the sky.

A report published in Seeker revealed, "The fact that its outburst has been detected puts it in an already rare collection of stellar objects, but what makes CX330 unique is its apparent solitude. Frankly, the star shouldn't exist and in earlier observations it wasn't clear if it was even a star."

"We tried various interpretations for it, and the only one that makes sense is that this rapidly growing young star is forming in the middle of nowhere," said Chris Britt, of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, in a statement. Britt is lead author of a study focusing on CX330 published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Could it be possible that the star was formed in a star formation region, only for it to be gravitationally slingshot out of the nest? This is highly unlikely as astronomers estimate the star is only a million years old and it is still consuming the gas and dust surrounding it. All lines of inquiry point to the fact the star was born where it is now and hasn't migrated far.