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Robert Lea

Infant stars burst out of their cosmic cribs in a violent stellar nursery (photo)

two bright spheres of light in the center of the image are surrounded by a hazy blue glow, piercing through a dark cloud of gas and dust.

Astronomers have witnessed two infant stars in a vast stellar nursery burst from their natal cribs of gas and dust. The newly formed stars, or "protostars," are located at the heart of the massive star-birthing interstellar cloud called Lupus 3. 

The observations of the heart of Lupus 3 were made with the Dark Energy Camera located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and could help shed more light on the mystery of star formation.

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