stellar nursery
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An area of outer space within a dense nebula in which gas and dust are contracting,…
An area of outer space within a dense nebula in which gas and dust are contracting, resulting in the formation of new stars.
- Karl Henize, a Northwestern astronomer, reported finding a cluster of 33 stars in a stellar nursery. The stars recently condensed from surrounding clouds of dust.
- NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite photographed dusty regions of the Milky Way, which are our galaxy's stellar nurseries.
- Since its launch in 1990 the Hubble space telescope has captured beautiful images of the universe, such as the birth of stars in stellar nurseries.
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