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This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The R136 star cluster — the blue stars in the lower right — contains massive stars, including nine newly-identified stars more t

Hubble Space Telescope Pinpoints 'Monster' Stars

9:25am March 19, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Scientists combined images from a camera with ultraviolet light measurements from a spectrograph to identify nine stars more than 100 times as massive as the sun.

ALMA image of the protoplanetary disk around HL Tauri.

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Astronomers Glimpse Distant Planetary Nursery

7:57pm November 06, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Images produced by a giant radio telescope array in Chile's Atacama desert show a nascent star and what's thought to be its solar system in the process of being born.