A Trip to Star School
If you wanted to learn about young people, you would probably visit a school where there are lots of young people to study, right? This photograph shows a star “school” — home to over a thousand of the biggest and brightest young stars in the sky. When astronomers want to study young stars, this cluster is one of the first places they look.
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NASA/ CXC/ SAO/ J.Drake et al./ Univ. of Hertfordshire/ INT/ IPHAS/ JPL-Caltech
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