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Creator of Stars
20 September 2010
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Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A great open mouth appears to swallow stars in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, this vast cloud of glowing hydrogen is a giant creator of stars; a nebula where stars are born.
Dragon nest
19 January 2010
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Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
A firestorm brews in this dragon nest. Whether you see a dragon rising above or an amoeba with antenna in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 604 is one of the largest known areas of star birth. NGC 604 is a vast star cloud, larger than the Orion Nebula and contains stars only about 3 million years old. More than 200 bright blue stars lie within this glowing cloud of gas and dust.
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