Gallery: Help! Baby Stars Attack This Pillar of Dust From the Inside

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    This pillar of dust and gas, three light-years tall, is being attacked from inside by infant stars sending out jets of gas.
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    This image of Saturn faces the sunlit side of the rings from above.
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    In this image, dusty clouds around a young star are breaking off into a multiple star system.
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    This image shows an iron-nickel meteorite on Mars’ surface.
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    This iron-nickel meteorite on Mars, nicknamed Egg Rock, is around the size of a golf ball.
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    Dark patches in the center and right of this image are small dark nebulae, containing dust and gas, called a Bok globule.
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    This open star cluster is found 200,000 light-years away, in the Toucan constellation.
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    These huge pillars within the Carina Nebula are actually clouds of dust and gas, 7,500 light-years from Earth.
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