#62: Star Birth Seen in Action
Astronomers glimpse stellar creation.
By Paul Raeburn
Jan 9, 2012 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:38 AM
Jets of gas ejected by a newborn star, racing at more than 400.000 miles per hour, stir up an interstellar shock wave. | NASA/ESA/P. Hartigan/Rice University
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