Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Cosmic Caterpillar


NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope locates protostar in very early evolutionary stage 4,500 light-years away.

Full story at GrindTV

Check out this photo - for those of you who remember Star Trek (the original series) doesn't this remind you of the planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine", 1967?


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