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This image, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula Picture: NASA

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10 posted on 12/29/2009 12:24:57 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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It looks like a soap bubble, but this is a planetary nebula caused when stars die and blast out a glowing shell of gas and plasma. Known as the "Soap Bubble Nebula", this rare planetary nebula PN G75.5 1.7 was discovered by an amateur astronomer Picture: REX FEATURES

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11 posted on 12/29/2009 12:28:34 PM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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