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Newborn stars peaking from beneath their dust blankets
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope/JPL/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
The colors in this image reflect the relative temperatures and
evolutionary states of the various stars. The youngest stars are
surrounded by dusty disks of gas from which they, and their potential
planetary systems, are forming. These young disk systems show up as red
in this image. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal
material, are blue.
