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Cosmic Buds

NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Flower-shaped neb­ula abound in the cos­mos. This churn­ing bud blos­soms with new stars in a new infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer. The stars, called the Berke­ley 5 clus­ter, show as blue dots to the right of the image. They shine in the cloud from which they formed only about a mil­lion years ago.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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