Gaseous Pillars in M16 - Eagle Nebula

This image taken by NASA's Hubble Telescope shows the birth of multiple new stars. These are not true colors but instead colors added by NASA to bring out certain details in the clouds. Gaseous Pillars in M16 - Eagle Nebula

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Blobs, the remains of a Super Nova

Once scientists thought that super novas where predictable and spreads smooth shells of gas through space. This image however provided otherwise. Each blob left by the super nova is the size of our solar system.

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Disks around Young Stars

Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be the early formative stages of planetary systems.

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NICMOS captures the heart of OMC-1

These images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) shows the birth of multiple new and young stars in the Orion Nebula. The Orion cloud OMC-1 houses the BN (Becklin-Neugebauer), a massive young star.

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The glorious death of a star

The picture of the egg nebula shown here was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Since the human eye can not process infra-red light, color was added to this image to show detail. Blue represents light reflected by dust and red represents heat.

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