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Plasma bubbles and cosmic fountains: the week in space

By Rachel Courtland

24 April 2009

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Researchers have proposed a new explanation for how the ‘pillars of creation’ formed

(Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U Colorado/Linsky et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/ASU/J Hester and P Scowen)

This week, Hubble celebrated its 19th birthday with a cosmic ‘fountain of youth’ and a colossal black hole blew bubbles of plasma into space.

See a gallery of the week’s images here

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