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Using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, found signatures of silicate crystals around a newly forming protostar in the constellation of Orion.

This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion -- an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars and developing protostars. Many will turn out like our sun.

Astronomers have discovered some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory; dense envelopes of gas and dust surround the fledging stars known as protostars, make their detection difficult until now.

Infrared images from instruments at Kitt Peak National Observatory left and NASA Spitzer Space Telescope document the outburst of HOPS 383, a young protostar in the Orion star-formation complex.

In this composite image of the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, SOFIA's view reveals evidence that parts of the nebula formed separately to create the swan-like shape seen today.

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Engineers at L3Harris Technologies, a contractor for the Roman Coronagraph Instrument, are shown inspecting the instrument’s optical path, which feeds light from the telescope into the instrument. Two people on the left of the image are wearing white full-body suits and are bent down, looking up at the instrument components. The hardware in front of them are made up of metal boxes and electrical wires, set on pedestals that lift them up above the engineers’ heads. The topmost instrument has textured red sides and blue and pink wires. All of the components are inside a silver framework with a black panel on top. Photo credit: Chris Gunn/ NASA JPL

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