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Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to take a sharper and larger image of the Eagle Nebula - the "Pillars of Creation". Photo: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/J. Hester, P. Scowen (Arizona State U.)

The Pillars of Creation - the icon of the mourning photographs, are crumbling

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An unprecedented photograph of the object Herbig-Haro 46/47 combining radio observations from the Alma Observatory with much shorter wavelength photographs of visible light from ESO's New Technology Telescope. Alma observations (orange and green, lower right) of the newborn star reveal a large energetic jet moving away from us, hidden by the dust and gas in the nebula where the star was born. On the left side (in pink and purple) we see the visible part of the jet, partially flying towards us. Photo: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Chile: A telescope photographed a star born only 1,400 light years from Earth

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"The Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud". In this composite image of the wing, Chandra data are shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are colored red, green and blue. Infrared radiation data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red.

Suns similar to our Sun have been discovered when it was young in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy

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The dust disappears around the star known as TYC 8241 2652. Photo: University of California

Houdini in Space: A large amount of gas around a star has mysteriously disappeared

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An infrared image of the Cygnus X star-forming region colored with wavelength-coded artificial colors. Light at 3.6 microns is colored blue, light at 4.5 microns in blue-green, 8 microns in green and 24 microns in red. These images were taken before the Spitzer mission ran out of cooling gas in 2009, becoming a "hot" mission.

A look into the delivery room of stars

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The open cluster NGC 265 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

How stars lose their partners

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The art of creating stars

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Supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Photo: Chandra Space Telescope

Spectacular images: the universe in X-rays

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Comparison of the sizes of stars of different types - red dwarf, solar-type star, blue dwarf and the recently discovered star Comparison of the sizes of different types of stars - red dwarf, solar-type star, blue dwarf and the recently discovered star R136a1. Figure: European Southern Observatory ESO

The heaviest star has been discovered - 300 times that of the Sun

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Artist's impression of a disk surrounding a young giant star. Astronomers have for the first time been able to clearly look at a disk of dust closely surrounding a young giant star. This discovery provides direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller brothers and thus closes a heated debate. The artist's rendering shows what such a massive disk might look like. Photo: ESO/L. Calçada

Meet the Titans: A disc of dust has been found around a massive star

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Comet Hale-Bop. Photography: A. Kolmhofer, H. Raab, Johannes Kepler Observatory, Linz, Austria

Many famous comets were probably visitors from outside the solar system

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The black smudge in the greenish cloud near the top of the image is a hole cut through NGC 1999 by jets and gas blown from young stars in this region of space. European Space Agency photo ESA/HOPS Consortium

Radiation emissions from young stars create a hole in space

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Cepheus A HW2. Imaging, University of Bonn

The controlled magnetism diet of massive stars

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The galaxy NGC 2976. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope and researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle

Hubble: The process of star formation fades in a neighboring galaxy

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The new images of Hubble - part XNUMX: the Carina Nebula

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Stars are formed at an enormous speed in fresh galaxies

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A young star cluster with a mysterious X-ray cloud. Photo: Chandra Space Telescope

Baby boom and birth control in space

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Where the biggest stars are born

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Sunrise in the cosmic mountains - Spitzer's most beautiful photograph

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Hubble helped calculate the maximum mass of stars

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Stellar embryos discovered in the Triffid Nebula

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Kindergarten to the stars

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The Galaxy satellite will investigate the history of the evolution of galaxies

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Survivor planets: Astronomers observed the first phase of a planet's growth, and also its destruction

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An ant in a magnifying glass

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