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Space dust pictures

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This combination emission/reflection nebula in the constellation Cygnus is intertwined with black rivers of dust and is probably a star forming region. Next, see dust swirling around a black hole.

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The pinwheel of dust at the upper left is an elliptical galaxy sliding toward the central black hole inside Perseus A. Space dust can eventually form planets too.

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The dust around this brown dwarf star is a proto-planetary disk, from which planets may form.
Next, see how a moon can pull dust particles from a large planet.

Space dust pictures

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Saturn's shepherd moon Prometheus seems to be pulling material off of the strands of the F Ring, the outermost bright ring.

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This Hubble image reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy.
The strands of dust suggest it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies.

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A light echo occurs when a sudden flash of light moves outward from a star through the surrounding dust and then travels to Earth. Witness the birth of a star in the next image.

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In this artist's conception, we peer through the dark dust of L1014 to witness the birth of a star.

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Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the Christmas Tree cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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The Sombrero Galaxy is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
It has a bright nucleus, an unusually large central bulge, and a prominent dust lane in its inclined disk.

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The Tarantula Nebula is the largest known stellar nursery and is visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch.

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