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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of infant stars forming in dusty, distant regions of our galaxy. Part of the SOFIA Massive (SOFIA) Star Formation Survey, these images reveal hidden protostars. Despite being shrouded in opaque dust, these newborn stars glow through holes blasted by high-speed jets of gas and dust.
Hubble detects the near-infrared light shining through these “outflow cavities,” allowing scientists to study the structure and radiation fields of massive stars—those more than eight times the mass of our Sun. These stellar baby pictures help researchers test theories about how massive stars evolve. The images feature regions like Cepheus A and IRAS 20126+4104, located thousands of light-years away.
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