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Valentine Rose

12 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 2 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Bright, young stars form a rosebud-shaped neb­ula in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope known as NGC 7129. In this Valentine’s Day image, thou­sands of stars are being formed in this dense cloud of gas and dust. Most stars, includ­ing our Sun, are thought to have formed in such clouds. Spitzer’s infrared cam­era allows us to peer inside this cloud.

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