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February 11, 2014

Hubble Looks in on a Nursery for Unruly Young Stars
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2014
This striking new image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a star in the process of forming within the Chameleon cloud. This young star is throwing off narrow streams of gas from its poles - creating this ethereal object known as HH 909A. These speedy outflows collide with the slower surrounding gas, lighting up the region. When new stars form, they gather material hungrily from the space around them. A young star will continue to feed its huge appetite until it becomes mass ... read more

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