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Stellar nursery bursts with newborn stars in hauntingly beautiful Hubble telescope image — Space photo of the weekA new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust.
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James Webb telescope peers into 'Eye of God' and finds clues to life's origins — Space photo of the weekA spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a dying sunlike star is enriching the galaxy with the elements needed for life.
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James Webb telescope spots 'failed stars' in a breathtaking cluster near Earth — Space photo of the weekThe James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about countless stars.
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Giant cosmic 'sandwich' is the largest planet-forming disk ever seen — Space photo of the weekA strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.
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Stunning array of 400 rings in a 'reflection' nebula solves a 30-year-old star-formation mystery — Space photo of the weekThe discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.
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James Webb telescope spies a monstrous molecular cloud shrouded in mystery — Space photo of the weekIn this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.
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Glittering new James Webb telescope image shows an 'intricate web of chaos' — Space photo of the weekThis mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' cores.
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Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the weekAstronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
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Ethereal structure in the sky rivals 'Pillars of Creation' — Space photo of the weekThe twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.
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