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Eagle
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Eerie,
dramatic pictures from the Hubble telescope show newborn stars
emerging from dense, compact pockets of interstellar gas called
evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs). Hubble found the EGGs
in the Eagle Nebula, a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years
from Earth in the constellation Serpens. Inside the gaseous
towers, which are light-years long, the interstellar gas is
dense enough to collapse under its own weight, forming young
stars that continue to grow as they accumulate more and more
mass from their surroundings.
Photo credit: NASA/Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen
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