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Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble captures bubbles and baby stars

by Alexandre Costa on Jun.23, 2010, under Hubble Space Telescope, Stellar Evolution

Credit: ESA/HST

A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region — highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe.(read more)

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