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To astronomers and laymen alike the topic of star formation has always been a particularly appealing one. The reason being that important clues about our genesis lie hidden behind the veil of the dusty, and often very beautiful, star forming molecular clouds. Our Earth and the Solar System were born 4.6 billion years ago...
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Most of the light and radiation we can observe in the Universe originates in stars – individual stars, clusters of stars, nebulae lit by stars and galaxies composed of billions of stars. Stars are spheres of glowing hydrogen and other chemical elements which produce their prodigious energy output by converting lighter elements to heavier ones through...
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Videos Showing nebulae in a star-forming region.
Credit: ESA/Hubble Showing an open cluster in a star-forming region.
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