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|  | |  | Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight 10 May 2012 Chaotic networks of dust and gas signpost the next generations of massive stars in this stunning new image of the Cygnus-X star-nursery captured by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.
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|  | |  | Herschel spots comet massacre around nearby star 11 April 2012 ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day.
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|  | |  | The dark heart of a cosmic collision 4 April 2012 Two of ESA’s space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view that it may have been created by the cataclysmic collision of two older galaxies.
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