Image: Hubble's diamond in the dust
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
Surrounded by an envelope of dust, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a young forming star known as HBC 1. The star is in an immature and adolescent phase of life, while most of a sun-like star's life is spent in a stable stage comparable to human adulthood.