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Hubble's newest camera images ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust

Hubble's newest camera images ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust

Hubble Space Telescope

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is actually just a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (in NGC 2264) - so named because in ground-based images it has a conical shape - this monstrous pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region.

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NASA , Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA
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