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Cloud of life
With this photograph, the space telescope Hubble shows details of the nebula NGC 2467, a vast gas cloud (predominantly hydrogen) within which are born suns and later, in all probability, their series of planets. Who knows whether one of these worlds will one day shelter a life form? The new attraction at the Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse is based around this question.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Orsola De Marco

The image explained on Spacetelescope.org

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