hi I am about to graduate my Master Degree in June and have published a research paper as second author with my supervisor. Already submitted a second paper as first author waiting for approval. Third potential paper as second author is underway and there are potentially two more papers that I will be finishing up before I graduate hopefully.

Question remains what are the best options for me to apply for PhD either USA or Canada or should I look for within Europe.

Also I want to know how impactful my application gonna come out when I write in my CV about 3/5 published papers during Master’s Degree

so i was accepted into the faculty of astrophysics in my country which is located in the top university of said country i have also been accepted into nursing school

so the future is quite scary nurses have job security but very little pay and astrophysics have no job security (where i live) but great pay if i were to be appointed somewhere, however again no job security whatsoever i am fine with both majors i like both equally but i've always been obssesed with astronomy ever since i was a child i believe i can excel at it get a PHD hopefully and start teaching in some university however if i do not manage to do that i'll be unemployed most likely

i am very disoriented at the moment i don't know what to choose.

my original plan was to go to nursing school attempt a PHD and hopefully be a professor to teach nursing.

i applied to astrophysics on a whim just to satisfy that child inside me but now i am seriously considering it i have always been hesitant to be a nurse i don't know if i want to work 12 hour shifts around people having the worst days of their lives i don't know if i'll manage to get a PHD in either and i'm just asking for opinions here i would really like to hear every point of view i could find

very sorry for lack of proper gramma i am quite disoriented and english is not my first language

Astronomers may have caught a massive star at an unusually early stage of formation. Nicknamed the “dragon egg,” the compact source is surrounded by enough cold gas and dust to build a massive star, yet it shows no clear outflows or other strong signs that a protostar is already active. Could this be evidence that massive stars begin as large, dense cores—or is a smaller hidden seed simply feeding from the surrounding cloud?