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A part of space 4,000 light-years away is filled with baby stars, and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them.
Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky’s 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space filled with gas and dust that has given way to the birth of new stars.
“This dust-and-gas landscape is being sculpted by powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds unleashed by a monster young star,” NASA said in a statement about the photo. Read more…
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