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Mysteries of How a Star Is Born
If there is anything you think astronomers would have figured out by now, it is how stars form. The basic idea for how stars form goes back to Immanuel Kant and Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 18th century, and the details of how they shine and evolve were worked out by physicists in the first half of the 20th century.
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Mysteries of How a Star Is Born
The space shuttle's 2009 mission to Hubble: Coming soon to a theater near you
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