September 2011
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Most astronomical processes change over timescales that are hopelessly longer than a human lifetime.
However, NASA scientists have collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together a time-lapse movie of powerful jets ejected from a young star.
The jets are a byproduct of gas accretion around newly forming stars and shoot off at supersonic...
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