A Star is Born How Stars Are Formed

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A Star is BornHow Stars Are Formed

• Star formation in the Eagle Nebula as seen with
  the Hubble Space Telescope

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• A tower of cold gas and dust rising from the
  Eagle Nebula 9.5 light years of height
• The Eagle nebula

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• The Dumbbell nebula

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In the Beginning Dark Clouds as Stellar
Nurseries

• The Horsehead Nebula, a dark cloud in Orion. From
  the Anglo-Australian Observatory

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The Collapse Formation of a Protostar

• The Orion Nebula, a site of active star
  formation. From the Hubble Space Telescope

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Behind the Veil Protostars

• A protostellar disk and outflow. From the Hubble
  Space Telescope

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Out of the Darkness Classical T Tauri Stars

• A young star and its circumstellar disk. From the
  Hubble Space Telescope

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From Disks to Planets Weak-lined T Tauri Stars

• An X-ray image of T Tauri stars in the L1551
  cloud. From the ASCA X-ray satellite.

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Childhood's End The Main Sequence

• The Sun the nearest Main Sequence star to the
  Earth. This is an X-ray image from the Yohkoh
  satelite.

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THE END

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