Feb 20, 2016 7:00 AM

Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Hubble Spots a Dusty Star

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2016/hubbles-diamond-in-the-dust">ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>
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Surrounded by an envelope of dust, Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a young forming star known as HBC 1. The star illuminates a wispy reflection nebula known as IRAS 00044+6521. Formed from clouds of interstellar dust, reflection nebulae do not emit any visible light of their own. Instead they shine via the light reflected off the dust from the stars embedded within.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jarosite-in-the-noctis-labyrinthus-region-of-mars">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona</a>
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This photo shows the western side of an elongated pit depression in the eastern Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars. Along the pit's upper wall is a light-toned layered deposit. Noctis Labyrinthus is a huge region of tectonically controlled valleys located at the western end of the Valles Marineris canyon system.

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-hulk-like-moon-charon-a-possible-ancient-ocean">NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</a>
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Pluto’s largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin. Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/glow-from-the-big-bang-allows-discovery-of-distant-black-hole-jet.html">X-ray: NASA/CXC/ISAS/A. Optical: DSS</a>
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Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe. This discovery shows that black holes with powerful jets may be more common than previously thought in the first few billion years after the Big Bang.

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia18358/dione-divided">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>
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Dione appears cut in two by Saturn's razor-thin rings, seen nearly edge-on in a view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This scene was captured from just 0.02 degrees above the ring plane. The bright streaks of Dione's wispy terrain are seen near the moon's limb at right. The medium-sized crater Turnus is visible along Dione's terminator.

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