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• Splashy portrait paints picture of how stars form

  Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolours in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region. The multi-wavelength picture combines X-ray, infrared and visible light captured by ESA’s XMM-Newton space-borne X-ray observatory, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's New Technolo More...

Space stories from the same time period

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• How to Photograph Stars in the Nighttime Sky - 6th Oct. 2008
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• Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem - 5th Oct. 2008
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