Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
Illustration

Young Stars
Young stars, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA.

The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed many astronomical phenomena that ground-based telescopes cannot see. The images show disks of matter around young stars that could give rise to planets.In the image below, stars are forming in the tendrils of gas and dust extending from a gigantic nebula.


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