Image: Protostar HOPS-68 in Orion (ssc2011-06c1)
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Description: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. An arrow points to the embryonic star, called HOPS-68. It is located in the dark filamentary cloud of cold dust and gas, over 5 light-years in length, located just north of the Orion nebula, which is seen here as the bright region at the bottom of the image.
Title: Protostar HOPS-68 in Orion (ssc2011-06c1)
Credit: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3635-ssc2011-06c1-Protostar-HOPS-68-in-Orion
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Megeath (University of Toledo, Ohio)
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