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Protoplanetary Disc


Depicts: Protoplanetary Disc
Copyright: C.R. O'Dell/Rice University NASA

A Hubble Space Telescope view of a very young star (between 300,000 and a million years of age) surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. The cool, reddish star is about one fifth the mass of our Sun.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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