Looking Into the Past
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February 8, 2009 A wide, dense disk of gas and dust surrounds the newborn star TW Hydrae in this artist's concept. Material in the disk may be coalescing to form planets and smaller bodies. The star system may show us what our own solar system looked like when the Sun was just a few million years old, and was giving birth to Earth and the other planets. [NASA/CXC/M. Weiss]
