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Jpl Celebrates Hubble's 25th Anniversary
Eerie, dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars emerging from "eggs"-not the barnyard variety-but rather, dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs).
Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the world's first space telescope. Hubble images have revealed a vast and colorful cosmos, showcasing, among many wonders, towering pillars of star-making dust and seas of galaxies floating in space like jellyfish.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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