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With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

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This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

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