File:The Cone Nebula NGC 2264 (opo9716a).jpg

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The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer(NICMOS) has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning image of six baby sun-like stars surrounding their mother, a bright, massive star.

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English: The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer(NICMOS) has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning image of six baby sun-like stars surrounding their mother, a bright, massive star. Known as NGC 2264 IRS, the massive star triggered the creation of these baby stars by releasing high-speed particles of dust and gas during its formative years.
Date 9 June 1997, 18:45:00 (upload date)
Source The Cone Nebula NGC 2264
Author Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke and Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA

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The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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