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Hubble reveals protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula

Original: # PPOD : More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed som

More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula were taken, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed something extraordinary in this familiar stellar nursery: young stars surrounded by disks of gas and dust. These structures, known as protoplanetary disks, are the birthplaces of planets and offer a rare view of solar systems forming.

Why now: New imagery from Hubble showing planet-forming disks in the Orion Nebula is being shared by space science outlets.

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• # PPOD : More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed something extraordinary in this familiar stellar nursery: young stars surrounded by gas and dust disks. These structures, known as protoplanetary disks or… · setiinstitute · 18

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